The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says one quarter of Africa\u2019s 346 million people faces a \u201cfood security crisis.\u201d<\/P>
The problem, the ICRC says, spans the entire continent with \u201cmillions of families skipping meals every day\u201d and \u201can alarming hunger situation that risks intensifying in the coming months.\u201d<\/P>
The causes, according to the ICRC, are conflict, drought, rising food prices, increases in the cost of fuel and lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/P>
\u201cThis is a disaster going largely unnoticed. Millions of families are going hungry and children are dying because of malnutrition,\u201d says Dominik Stillhart, the head of the ICRC\u2019s global operations.<\/P>
\u201cWe are scaling up our operations in countries like Somalia, Kenya, Nigeria and Burkina Faso and many others to try and help as many people as we can, but the number of people going without food and water is staggering.\u201d<\/P>
Last month, the ICRC said Somalia was the most severely affected of the Horn of Africa countries facing the ongoing drought. The ICRC noted that crops had failed, water levels were depleted, and livestock lost.<\/P>
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Source: Voice of America<\/P>
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