UN Warns on Crisis to Hit Kenya & 21 Other Countries
UN Warns on Crisis set to Hit Kenya & 21 Other Countries. The study revealed that Kenya is set to be a hunger hotspot in 2025 as it faces an increased risk of enduring famine from October 2024 to March 2025.
According to the report, the famine can be attributed to various causes such as conflict, economic crisis and climate shocks- particularly the La Nina weather phenomenon.
Weather agencies have cautioned that La Nina is likely to disrupt rainfall patterns that will barr farming practices across areas that have been marked as hunger hotspots.
“An increased likelihood of below average rainfall from October to December 2024 linked to La Nina, could exacerbate food insecurity in Kenya. This comes amid a slow recovery from the 2020-2023 drought followed by record flooding in late 2023 and early 2024,” the report read in part.
“An estimated 1.7 million people in arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya are projected to face crisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity between October 2024 and January 2025, compared to 1.5 million the same period one year before,” the report revealed.
The report further disclosed that 22 countries in total are at risk for increased food insecurity levels in the coming year (2025).
“For the outlook period of November 2024 to May 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are issuing an early warning for urgent humanitarian action in 16 hunger hotspots, covering a total of 22 countries/territories, including two regional clusters spanning eight countries,” the report stated
“Catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity bordering on starvation are expected to impact hundreds of thousands of people in coming months, driven principally by conflict. Five hunger hotspots are of particular concern: Haiti, Mali, the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), South Sudan and Sudan,” UN agencies noted
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