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East Africa food security will test resilience concept

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EAST AFRICA

This falls just short of a 'famine' warning -- which would require 20% of households to face catastrophe levels, as well as heightened malnutrition and mortality rates. The UN has…

Sahelian countries face acute hunger crisis

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SAHEL

Food shortages and insecurity in the Sahel.

South Sudan’s government will hinder aid efforts

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SOUTH SUDAN

South Sudan’s civil war is now in its fourth year, during which the intensity and extent of fighting has fluctuated. Despite the notional maintenance of the August 2015 peace…

Skewed aid will deepen Yemeni divisions

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YEMEN

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have long been the main providers of aid in Yemen. They have, however, increasingly shifted focus towards direct engagement with…

Syria humanitarian response lacks long-term strategy

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SYRIA/INT

Syria humanitarian crisis.

Drought will drive Southern Africa food insecurity

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SOUTHERN AFRICA

It warns that, outside South Africa, over 15% of people in Southern African states face "hunger", defined as not meeting their basic dietary requirements. The figure rises to over…

Regional tensions threaten West African food security

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WEST AFRICA

This could worsen to an estimated 49.5 million people by mid-year as the lean season sets in between harvests. Meanwhile, over 100 million people could face food insecurity if…

Food insecurity will persist in South Sudan

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SOUTH SUDAN

Areas of South Sudan were once predicted to become the ‘food basket’ of East Africa, making the country a net exporter of agricultural produce. However, even before independence…

Syrian-Lebanese food shortages will drive instability

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SYRIA/LEBANON

While Lebanon is experiencing what the World Bank dubbed “the worst economic crisis in more than a century”, civil war-torn Syria has been hit by one of the most severe droughts…

Militancy may become chronic problem around Lake Chad

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SAHEL

Sparsely populated and usually peripheral to the surrounding countries (Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria), the Lake Chad area has been affected by the spillover of the Boko Haram…