More than 88m people face hunger in East, Central Africa
Asha Kano Kavi, an internally displaced woman from Kadugli, serves wild boiled leaves for food to orphaned children at the Bruam IDP Camp in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan on June 22, 2024.
Some 88.5 million people in East and Central Africa were highly food insecure and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance at the end of June 2025, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) said in a joint report released on Monday.
In their June food security and nutrition update, the FAO and Igad noted that of these, 57.1 million people were in seven of the eight Igad member states, namely Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.
