Location: Africa
El Niño has brought devastating drought to southern Africa and caused a second failed harvest that has left many farming families reeling in Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly stepping up life-saving operations for people like Roseby.
Unprecedented drought and a tumbling economy have left half the population without enough food.
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Conflict is devastating northern Ethiopia, pushing hundreds of thousands of men, women and children into the risk of famine-like conditions. Today, an estimated 5.2 million people in Tigray alone in need of emergency food assistance.
In the midst of positive economic growth, this regional powerhouse is facing a set of long-standing development challenges: poverty, food insecurity, malnutrition, spatial and social disparity, and gender-based inequality - with climate shocks on top of it all.
Djibouti is the hungriest country in the Horn of Africa - nearly half of the population lives in extreme poverty. But WFP is there, working to eradicate hunger for all.
Côte d'Ivoire remains one of the best-performing economies in sub-Saharan Africa, but malnutrition and food insecurity are still ravaging rural communities.
Today, the DRC is one of the world's largest hunger crises and counts Africa’s highest number of internally displaced people. Hunger and conflict are fueling each other.
Gambia is facing rising hunger, poverty and malnutrition. Major crises such as the Ebola outbreak and climate-related drought and floods have all taken their toll on the country’s economy.
Over the last 20 years, significant progress has been made in reducing poverty and hunger levels. However, Hunger and malnutrition persist primarily in northern Ghana, as well as many rural communities across the country.
Chronic food insecurity is compounded by shocks related to political instability, irregular rainfall and volatility of prices for imported rice and local cashew nut production for export.