0 SHARES Share TweetK’elafo, Ethiopia | AFP | Monday – From southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya and Somalia, around 22 million people are at risk of hunger as the worst drought in four decades grips the Horn of Africa. The United Nations says 12 million people in Ethiopia, 5.6 million in Somalia and 4.3 million in Kenya are “acutely food insecure”. Across the region, 1.7 million people have been driven from their homes by a lack of water and pasture, it said. – Children in danger –According to the UN children’s agency UNICEF, almost two million children across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia require urgent treatment for severe acute malnutrition, the deadliest form of hunger. Some 2.7 million children have also stopped going to school, it said.

Source: Daily Nation January 30, 2023 21:30 UTC