Hunger Crisis in East Africa: What can we do?

By BRUCE MANGUSON

According to the World Food Program, there is a huge crisis of hunger in Africa, the Middle East, and other parts of the world. For one example, we might look at Somalia. In Somalia, a September report on reliefweb.int states that 6.7 million people across the country were expected to face “high levels of acute food insecurity” from September to December of 2022. Of those, 2.2 million were projected to be in “Emergency” and 300,000 people in “Catastrophe.” Many of those are children.* 

There are apparently a couple reasons for this awful situation. One is that there have not been good rains in areas of Somalia for about four years. If this situation were to happen in Minnesota, maybe we could get our food from Illinois or Ohio, for example. The federal government would likely help out. It would be devastating, but probably most people would survive. However, in a situation such as Somalia’s there may be lack of infrastructure to transport food, and food may be so expensive that people do not have the financial resources to buy it from another country. We cannot even hardly imagine what this is like. Think about waking up on a certain morning, and there just is no money for food.… Read the rest “Hunger Crisis in East Africa: What can we do?”