Four countries are on the brink of mass starvation. South Sudan, Yemen, northeast Nigeria, and Somalia are all suffering. Aid agencies don’t have enough funding to feed people. Pleading for funding by the U.N. hasn’t helped enough.
“We are raising our alarm level further by today morning that the risk of mass deaths from starvation among populations in the Horn of Africa, in Yemen, and Nigeria, is growing. This warning is in light of the drought situations that you have been hearing about, that are also affecting many neighbouring countries and a funding shortfall that has become so severea
that an avoidable humanitarian crisis in the region, possibly worse than that, in case of the Horn of Africa, of 2011, is fast becoming an inevitability,” said Adrian Edwards, a UNHCR spokesman.
