Why hunger may bite longer, derail East Africa state building
WFP says that there is already ample evidence of impacts on food insecurity and malnutrition, some of which are irreversible, with women, children, refugees and IDPs particularly affected.
East African countries may face several more months of food shortages as a result of increasing funding cuts, which could jeopardise efforts to rebuild states.
This warning comes from a situational analysis of six critical crisis regions around the world, most of which are in the eastern Africa region. The World Food Programme (WFP) says that some 13.7 million people globally will plunge into a worse grade on food security, dropping from crisis (IPC3) to emergency (IPC4) levels of hunger, a direct impact on cuts on food rations supplied by WFP.
