Posted on 07/14/2022 6:56:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The International Committee of the Red Cross warns hundreds of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa are going hungry due to conflict, climate shocks, and rising food prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The ICRC warns Africa’s food crisis is set to worsen. It says conflict and armed violence, failing harvests due to years of drought, and increases in food and other commodity prices are driving more people into extreme poverty and hunger.
A recent U.N. assessment estimates 346 million people on the continent face severe food insecurity, meaning one-quarter of the population does not have enough to eat.
The ICRC regional director for Africa, Patrick Youssef, says the situation is urgent. He warns many lives will be lost without a concerted effort by different actors to meet the challenges ahead. He says aid agencies, international financial institutions, and governments must collaborate to prevent the humanitarian crisis from becoming irreversible.
“As we look at 2023, we know that this will repeat itself. These climate shocks will repeat themselves; food insecurity will remain as acute as it is," said Youssef. "It will not end with the calendar year. So, we all will better collectively be prepared for a long haul, for a situation, for a crisis that will certainly increase in size and volume.”
The ICRC reports the war in Ukraine has caused a sharp increase in fuel and fertilizer prices. That, it says, has added significant pressure on farmers, many of whom are weathering the combined impact of conflict and climate shocks.
Youssef says the Horn of Africa is most seriously affected. He notes, however, that other parts of Africa, from Mauritania to the Sahel to Lake Chad and, to a lesser extent, the Central African Republic, are suffering from the effects of the Ukraine crisis.
“Countries are equally, at least those who are, as you mentioned, so dependent on grains and wheat from Russia and Ukraine. Somalia is the worst—90 percent," said Youssef. "But Nigeria has also a large dependency on that. Sudan and South Sudan as well. And, indeed the situation is extremely difficult for people that are inaccessible for humanitarian organizations, such as Somalia.”
Youssef says lack of access to people in areas affected by conflict and armed violence, such as Somalia and Burkina Faso raise the challenges to a different level.
The ICRC reports more than 35 armed conflicts are taking place on the continent and around 30 million people are internally displaced and refugees. The Swiss-based humanitarian agency says people uprooted from their homes are particularly vulnerable to extreme weather, fluctuation of food prices and hunger.
That’s too bad
Can’t wait for all the super concerts!
Praying for those countries.
Western countries need to take care of the people who live in Western countries.
Did they mention currupt Moslem Governments?
Bush meat. Wildlife will suffer.
What, the Chinese imperialist are not taking good care of their slav-um, workers?
I’m SHOCKED!
Liberals and globalists: “Well, The DDT gambit was not working fast enough. By banning DDT you get large outbreaks of malaria, killing the (almost all black) sub-Saharans. But that takes time. Instead, you create massive food shortages and starve them to death. Works a lot faster and, well, they’re almost all black. So who cares if a bunch of them die of starvation? As long as they die. We’ve got to reduce the population somehow!”
Grow their own food ,Never . They did have to throw in Global warming though
It has always been a question for me as to why Africa isn’t the bread basket for the world. There are huge swaths of good rich soil in Africa that with good agricultural practices could be producing great quantities of food. At least, that’s how it appears to me!
The result of Biden & the Democrats policies. Unintended consequences created by people who don’t understand the effects of what they’re doing.
See Rhodesia History Of
Paging Bob Geldof
Ain’t The Global Reset grand?
Here comes the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
✝️🙏🛐
What else is new?
Rhodesia now Zimbabwe used to be one of these “Bread baskets” until socialist took over and that was the end of it. Whatever these bastards touch will eventually die.
The farmers were executed in South Africa as well.
We keep feeding, they keep breeding.
Dear sub-Saharan Africa:
What else is new?
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