The risk of mass starvation rapidly rising in Northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, due to drought and conflict, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday.
UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards told a news briefing on Tuesday in Geneva : ”“we are raising our alarm level today that the risk of mass deaths from starvation among populations in the Horn of Africa, Yemen and Nigeria is growing.
“We are already seeing a rise of displacement.
“Amid a funding shortfall and sharply deteriorating availability of food, a humanitarian crisis possibly worse than that of 2011 may occur”.
He said that amid a funding shortfall and sharply deteriorating availability of food, a humanitarian crisis possibly worse than that of 2011 when 260,000 people died of famine in the Horn of Africa “is fast becoming an inevitability”. (NAN)