Local Editor
Yemen’s food crisis topped the world’s eight worst food crises in 2018, according to the 2019 Global Report on Food Crises.
The other seven countries are, in order of severity, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Sudan, South Sudan and northern Nigeria.
These eight countries accounted for two thirds of the total number of people facing acute food insecurity – amounting to nearly 72 million people.
The report, issued by the Food Security Information Network (FSIN), illustrates in stark terms the hunger caused by conflict and insecurity, climate shocks and economic turbulence in countries.
It is a reference document on the latest estimates of acute hunger in the world. according to the report, more than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance in 2018.
The figure of 113 million people represents a slight improvement over the number for 2017 presented in last year’s report, in which an estimated 124 million people in 51 countries faced acute hunger.
Despite the slight decrease, over the past three years, the report has consistently shown that, year on year, more than 100 million people (2016, 2017 and 2018) have faced periods of acute hunger.
Source: Yemenwatch.net
