180 million people in Yemen and Afghanistan threatened with famine in 2022
As the Russian-Ukrainian crisis continues, a global food crisis report for 2022 revealed that nearly 180 million people in 40 countries will face inevitable food insecurity, which could also lead to malnutrition and mass starvation. It could also lead to famine in some countries, foremost among them Yemen and Afghanistan. As the war continues, there is growing concern that the crisis will lead to food crises in developing countries around the world, as tens of millions of people around the world are at risk of hunger, after the four-month war led to the disruption of grain shipments from Ukraine.
World famine
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the world is facing a catastrophe due to growing food shortages around the world. Guterres said in a video message to officials: “There is a real danger of multiple famines being declared in 2022, and 2023 could be even worse”, he said, noting that crops across Asia, Africa and the Americas will be affected as farmers around the world struggle to cope with rising fertilizer and energy prices.
India Express reports that Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen are hunger hotspots because they face catastrophic conditions, according to the latest report by the World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). A press release issued by the UN Deputy Secretary-General said that a total of 750,000 people are already facing starvation and death in Ethiopia, Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Afghanistan, for example, Somalia is facing unprecedented wheat shortages due to a halt in exports from Russia and Ukraine, where the Black Sea export route has been closed since the war began on 24 February. According to the UN, the east African country has an estimated 13 million people suffering from severe hunger as a result of persistent drought. According to the World Food Program (WFP), the combination of conflict and drought has driven up inflation in Ethiopia, adding that as of April, the food price index in Ethiopia had risen by 43 per cent compared to the same month last year.
Yemen and Afghanistan
According to the newspaper, Yemen is facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world since years of fighting between government forces and the Houthi militia. It is expected that about 19 million people in Yemen will need food aid in 2022, an increase from the current 2017 level of 17.3 million people, after 17.3 million people are expected to face hunger. The World Food Program report stated that Yemen is facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world since the years of fighting between government forces and the Houthi militia ‘The World Food Program (WFP) has announced more dramatic cuts in food aid in Yemen, leaving millions of already war-stricken Yemenis unable to get enough food, and the World Food Program (WFP) said on Sunday it had been forced to rationalize due to insufficient funding, global economic conditions and the lingering knock-on effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine’.
