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As Hunger Rates Soar, New Forecast Warns Horn of Africa Faces Potential Sixth Failed Rainy Season

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Press Releases
February 2, 2023

As Hunger Rates Soar, New Forecast Warns Horn of Africa Faces Potential Sixth Failed Rainy Season

Action Against Hunger is raising the alarm about rising hunger rates as a new Climate Hazards Center forecast predicts a sixth consecutive failed rainy season in the Horn of Africa. Below-normal rains between March and May could further stress limited food and water supplies as, across the Horn of Africa, an estimated 46 million people — more than the population of California — urgently need food assistance.

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January 3, 2023

Ensuring Hebron’s Survival: A Mother’s Story

“My baby was in a very bad situation. If I hadn’t brought Hebron to the health center, he could have even died."

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December 2, 2022

In War-Torn South Sudan, Young People Unite Over Soccer

With the score tied 1-1 in extra time, players scramble to score a goal.
News & Stories
November 18, 2022

On World Toilet Day, Why Sanitation and Malnutrition Are So Interlinked

An Action Against Hunger worker brings digging supplies to a mother, who wants to build a latrine at home to help protect her family's health.
News & Stories
November 14, 2022

The Struggle for Survival in Somalia: Adan’s Story

A woman walks through dry lands with her livestock. Many like her face hunger due to severe drought in Somalia.
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November 8, 2022

COP27: The Climate Crisis is a Hunger Catastrophe

The women of the community located in Ltungai leave a few minutes to fill the 15-litre containers with water in a hole where the water is stagnant, between two rocks. The water is not drinkable, full of bacteria.
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October 26, 2022

Putting Flood Waters to Good Use: Growing Rice in South Sudan

Hundreds of thousands of people in South Sudan have been impacted by devastated flooding. Action Against Hunger is teaching displaced families to plant and harvest rice to help them cope.

Farmers stand behind the rice paddy they planted earlier in the day.
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September 14, 2022

1.8 Million Children in Somalia Face Acute Malnutrition, Worse Expected Before Year-End

More than half of Somalia's children need urgent treatment for malnutrition.

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September 6, 2022

Large Parts of Somalia on the Brink of Famine

Action Against Hunger calls for urgent funding to save lives as 7.1 million people across Somalia face drought & severe food crisis.

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June 15, 2022

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