Rainfall trends in a historic Horn of Africa drought are now worse than they were during the 2011 drought when at least a quarter of million people died, according to a climate centre.
The number of children suffering terrible drought conditions across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia has more than doubled in five months, according to a UNICEF press release published in December, 2022.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development says crippling spikes in food and energy prices continue to hit East and Southern Africa, coupled by the devastating impact of climate change is having a negative impact on the productive capacity of small-scale farmers.
A recent report has estimated that over 600 million lives of people in Africa are at risk due to the growing severity and frequency of droughts occasioned by climate change.
While there’s no doubt that a warming planet makes food security more challenging, calling a famine “climate-induced” is complicated and recently controversial.
Some 500 million people across 19 African nations remain water insecure, according to the first-ever United Nations assessment of water security across the continent.
