Africa faces unprecedented food crisis, UN says

A report warned that ‘millions are expected to be at risk of worsening hunger in the near future’ (AP)

At least three quarters of Africans cannot afford a healthy diet, and a fifth are undernourished due to an “unprecedented food crisis”, United Nations agencies said in a report released with the African Union Commission.

The continent’s 1.4 billion people are confronting high levels of hunger and malnutrition as the hit on world grain supplies from Russia’s war in Ukraine compounds the ills of African conflicts, climate change and the after-effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the report said.