Central and East Africa: Food Security Alarm in Africa

Sep 2, 2014 | AllAfrica
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Some 20 million people are facing acute food insecurity in eastern and central Africa, with most of them being at crisis and emergency levels, according to aid agencies. This figure compares unfavourably with 15.8 million people in July 2013.

The affected countries include Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Central Africa Republic (CAR), Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania.

In Kenya, an estimated 1.3 million people, 300,000 of whom are either at crisis or emergency levels, require support to cushion them against food insecurity according to the Kenya Food Security Steering Group.