East Africa: Fifty million people in famine

Conflict, drought, and floods are the main drivers of Crisis and Emergency outcomes in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, and  Uganda. 

FEWS NET estimates approximately 45-55 million people across the region need humanitarian food and nutrition assistance to prevent crisis or between on May 2022.

Ongoing conflict continues to have the most severe impacts on food insecurity in northern Ethiopia, Yemen, and parts of South Sudan. Extreme food insecurity persists in Tigray, Afar, and Amhara regions in northern Ethiopia despite a recent lull in conflict, driven by continued restrictions on humanitarian access and severe damage to household livelihood systems. 

Many households have been displaced multiple times, resulting in reduced coping capacity, increased vulnerability to shocks, and higher reliance on humanitarian assistance.

Internally displaced populations, numbering nearly 17 million across the region, are among those facing severe to extreme food insecurity. 4.8 million refugees are located in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda, Djibouti, and Tanzania. 

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