“Every 10 seconds, a child dies from hunger-related causes. Meanwhile, over 770 million people live on less than $2 a day, and 258 million children are denied an education due to poverty and conflict. With 70 million people displaced worldwide, their dreams and futures hang in the balance. You can change this. Your support can turn despair into hope, hunger into nourishment, and displacement into stability. Act now—because every second counts.”
Somalia
As of September 18, 2023, 3.7 million people in Somalia are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, which is 22% of the population. This includes 1 million people who are threatened by starvation. The situation is especially dire in rural areas
Somalia has the highest rate of starvation deaths by country in Africa and in the world. The rate is a sky-high 42.27 deaths per 100,000 people.
Kenya
As of April 2024, 1.9 million people in Kenya, or 12% of the population, were facing acute food insecurity and needed urgent humanitarian aid. This was due to a number of factors, including:The food crisis has also had an impact on children, with over 650,000 children under 5 and over 96,000 pregnant or lactating women experiencing acute malnutrition.
Ethiopia
As of June 2024, Ethiopia is facing a severe food crisis, with about 13 million people in need of humanitarian food assistance between July and September. This includes around 4 million internally displaced people (IDPs) and over one million refugees. The number of facing food insecurity in Ethiopia fluctuates, peaking at 26.3% in April 2022 and dropping to 22.25% in May 2023.
As of March 2022, an estimated 150,000–200,000 people in Ethiopia had died of starvation due to acute food shortages that began in November 2020 with the Tigray War.
