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Africa: COVID-19 - Additional 23 Million People Face Acute Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa - Ifad
Premium Times, 30 May 2020
About 23 million more people are expected to be pushed into extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa this year alone, the president, International Fund for Agricultural Development,… Read more »
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Africa: Idris Elba Sounds Alarm As Pandemic Threatens Food Crisis for Farmers
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 29 May 2020
Idris Elba on Friday called for urgent action and creative solutions to prevent a looming hunger crisis in poor countries, where food production and transport have been disrupted… Read more »
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East Africa: Locusts and Coronavirus - Two Crises at Once
DW, 11 May 2020
East Africa is still battling its worst locust invasion in decades. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, countries are fighting to stop a new generation of locusts swarms. Read more »
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West Africa: 43 Million West Africans at Risk of Food Insecurity - Report
Premium Times, 6 May 2020
The World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday said over 40 million people across West Africa will face desperate food shortages in coming months. Read more »
'Over 23 Million People Face Acute Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa'
In most of Africa, people are more likely to die from starvation caused by the economic fallout from the pandemic than from the disease itself, the president of International Fund for Agricultural Development, Gilbert Houngbo, has said. Climate and environmental shocks continue to threaten food supplies, locusts are still ravaging crops in East Africa while most of the continent is emerging from its worst drought in years. In West and Central Africa, the lean season is coming, with 21 million people facing critical food shortages in July and August.
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The International Monetary Fund has predicted that the global economy will contract by 3% in 2020, making the "great lockdown the worst recession since the Great Depression, and ... Read more »
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allAfrica's Nontobeko Mlambo spoke with Jane Battersby, an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town's African Centre for Cities, on the need to address malnutrition in ... Read more »
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Sub-Saharan Africa's farming sector has grown faster than anywhere else in the world with a 4.6 percent agriculture GDP growth rate from 2000 to 2018. But about 20 percent of ... Read more »
