The United Nations has released $100m help millions of people facing hunger in South Sudan, Somalia, Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia and Yemen.
The organization says the acute food shortage has been caused by armed conflict, drought, and economic turmoil worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also said the spillover effects of the war in Ukraine threaten to drive millions of people even closer to famine.
The OCHA spokesman Mr Jens Laerke says that Yemen, South Sudan, and Somalia are already in what the United Nations calls a Phase 5 emergency – catastrophic hunger or famine.
The United Nations launched appeals for each of the seven countries months ago for global total of $43 billion. Laerke said only 6.5% of this amount has been funded. He said tyhey are aware that the $100 million made available for emergency relief will not solve the problems facing these countries.
Souece: Radio Tamazuj.
