Famines are not common. When a famine is declared it means people are already dying. And the last time this happened, six years ago in the Horn of Africa, the cause was a natural one: drought. This ...

The world’s leading experts on hunger, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Famine Review Committee ... person we spoke to bore the marks of hunger. One 8-year-old boy I met, died ...

From November 2021 to November 2022 the number of people experiencing hunger in East Africa increased as follows The number ... Irrespective of if there is a famine declaration in coming months or not ...