It is the season from hell again in many parts of Africa. Around 20 percent of people in Africa — nearly 280 million — are facing chronic hunger, compared with 10 percent globally. Closer home, a loaded report noted that Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia make up two percent of the world's population, yet the three are home to 70 percent of the world's most extreme food insecure.
By September, 20 million people in these countries faced extreme food insecurity. At the end of August, the International Red Cross reported gloomily that "on the ground…people are already dying from starvation. Yet the crisis has struggled to attract the attention and funding it desperately requires."
