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Fome em África pode ser a pior em décadas
August 17, 2022 - Desenrola-se um desastre humanitário na África Oriental, que está assolada pela pior seca em pelo menos quatro décadas. Mais de 80 milhões de pessoas do Mali à Somália sofrem de insegurança alimentar.
A multi-season drought in East Africa, now entering its fifth year and with only 50% of the average rainfall this rainy season, has been compounded by a perfect storm of factors to plunge millions into hunger.
The ongoing conflict in the Sahel, with Boko Haram in west Africa and al-Shabab in the east has disrupted farming and aid distibution, a locust infestation is decimating crops in the Horn of Africa, while Covid and the war in Ukraine have hit supplies of food, fuel and fertiliser.