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Multiple crises mean future instability in Madagascar

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MADAGASCAR

Rajoelina faces a wide array of challenges as he looks towards the final two years of his current presidential term. These include severe tensions within his inner circle, a…

Food crisis in the Sahel will intensify this year

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SAHEL

The lean season in the Sahel region runs from May to August and is typically the period of greatest food insecurity in an endemically food-insecure area. This year, amid…

Pandemic impact boosts Latin American food insecurity

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LATIN AMERICA

While the pandemic undoubtedly played a significant role, the situation also resulted from structural factors and was worsened by LAC’s high levels of economic inequality.

Political causes hinder Madagascar famine prevention

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MADAGASCAR

The UN has pointed to climate change as the crisis’s main cause. However, the region’s peripheral status, political marginalisation, corrupt governance and poverty play more…

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…

Pandemic to deepen food insecurity beyond 2020

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INT

Global hunger crisis.

Sahel border closures disrupt food supply chains

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SAHEL

Chad closed its borders with Sudan and the Central African Republic. Closures have had a direct economic impact in Sahelian border zones, which are often vulnerable to food…

Funding causes concern as famine looms in East Africa

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EAST AFRICA

Yet despite this significant new commitment, and effective early warning of the risk of famine, a dysfunctional humanitarian funding architecture and a lack of engagement from…

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…

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…