South Sudan/Somalia/Nigeria/Yemen: Conflict Deepens Hunger Crises in South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen

Apr 27, 2017 | Lauren Anderson, International Institute for Sustainable Development
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The 165th session of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Council opened with FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva warning that, without urgent intervention, 20 million people will starve to death over the next six months in South Sudan, Somalia, north-eastern Nigeria and Yemen. The warning comes about a month after FAO released the ‘Global Report on Food Crises 2017,’ which established that in 2016, 108 million people around the world faced crisis level food insecurity, a 35% increase over 2015.