The World Food Program (WFP) is expanding assistance in the Horn of Africa as levels of hunger soar after back-to-back droughts and the threat of famine looms, the U.N. food agency said Friday.
Since the start of the year, 9 million more people have slipped into severe food insecurity across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, leaving 22 million people struggling to find enough food to eat, WFP’s regional office in Nairobi said in a statement.
David Beasley, WFP’s executive director, who wrapped up his visit to drought-ravaged Somalia on Thursday, said that more than 7 million people – close to half the population – are acutely food insecure and 213,000 are already facing famine-like conditions.
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