Region starves as Tanzania seeks wider market for its surplus food
Internally-displaced Somalis wait for food at a distribution point in Mogadishu on July 26, 2011. An estimated 3.7 million people in Somalia - around a third of the population - are on the brink of starvation and millions more in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda have been struck by the worst drought in the region in 60 years. PHOTO | AFP
As the African Union endorsed 2022 as the Year of Nutrition last weekend, seeking to strengthen the continent’s resilience in food security, the UN was waving the red flag about biting hunger in the Horn of Africa, where at least 13 million people are starving.
In fact, 50 million people in the larger East African region are at risk of starvation, according to experts.
