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Food crisis tightens its grip on 19 ‘hunger hotspots’ as famine looms in the Horn of Africa – new report
21/09/2022
Rising conflict, weather extremes, and economic instability aggravated by the lingering impacts of COVID-19 and the ripple effects of the war in Ukraine are among the key drivers

Window of opportunity to prevent famine in Somalia is closing, Principals of Inter-Agency Standing Committee warn
05/09/2022
FAO Director-General QU Dongyu joins heads of IASC in a statement

Famine in Somalia projected, lives of millions of people are at immediate risk, UN says
05/09/2022
FAO calls for immediate, scaled-up assistance to devastated rural communities to avert catastrophe

Drought in the Horn of Africa: FAO appeals for $172 million to help avert famine and humanitarian catastrophe
27/06/2022
Rapid Response and Mitigation Plan focuses on four epicentres: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia
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FAO Desert Locust campaign: East Africa upsurge suppressed, Kenya free from Desert Locust
15/06/2022
Interview with Cyril Ferrand, FAO’s Resilience Team Leader for East Africa, and Carla Mucavi, FAO Country Representative in Kenya

FAO and WFP warn of looming widespread food crisis as hunger threatens stability in dozens of countries
06/06/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today issued a stark warning of multiple, looming food crises, driven by conflict, climate shocks, the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic

As rains fail again, catastrophic hunger looms over Somalia
06/06/2022
A historic fourth consecutive failed rainy
season, skyrocketing prices and an underfunded humanitarian response have
resulted in a 160 percent increase in people facing catastrophic levels of food
insecurity, starvation and disease in Somalia

FAO and partners reach almost 11 million livestock in nationwide drought campaign
05/05/2022
The emergency supportive treatment campaign protects livestock from drought-related diseases and maintains household food security, especially for those with young children

FAO and Belgium assist communities in Kenya to avert a hunger crisis
26/04/2022
A prolonged, multi-season drought is driving acute food insecurity across the Horn of Africa, with millions of people on the brink of starvation

Somalia: New data show how drought in the Horn of Africa is driving up acute hunger
12/04/2022
Aid to keep rural, agriculture-dependent families on their feet is needed at massive scale to stave off catastrophe