Starvation in Africa – a comprehensive outlook (essay)

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Starvation in Africa – a comprehensive outlook (essay).

Famine has ravaged parts of Africa in recent years with the northeast parts (Sudan, Somalia, and Ethiopia) being the most badly affected areas due to periodic privation. The World Food Conference leaders in 1974 promised that no child would go hungry within a decade. However, in 1996 governments admitted that at least 800 million people were not in a position of accessing adequate food that would meet their most basic needs (“Global hunger continues to rise”, 2018). A state of national disaster was declared in January 1997 by the government of Kenya after there was a threat to the livelihoods of 2 million people due to severe droughts.  In early 2000, Kenya was hit by the worst drought in the past 37 years rendering four million people in need of food aid. In December 2005, almost 2.5 million people in Northern Kenya were facing starvation. The Famine was declared a national catastrophe. In 1996, the United Nations indicated that at least 22 million in sub-Saharan Africa were faced with starvation. Moreover, in the case of Sudan, the civil war resulted in 2.5 million Sudanese beings in need of emergency food in February 1994. Unlike in Kenya where Starvation was attributed to the adverse semi-arid climatic conditions, the famine in Sudan was mostly human-made. The civil war made most of the Sudanese residents flee their homes and eventually miss out on the planting seasons.

Almost seven million people were threatened by food shortages in Ethiopia during the springtime. Despite a lot of effort through relief foods and various donations to help the people, at least 5000 people died. In the case of Somalia, in the year 1992, at least 2 million people experienced possible starvation with at least 25000 troops from America who worked for the United Nations aided in food delivery (Moszynski, 2010). There was a widespread famine in Ethiopia in 1988 that ended up putting 6 million out of 46 million population in Ethiopia at the risk of starvation. However, the largest famine in Ethiopia was experienced between 1984 and 1985 that ended up killing 1 million people. The security conditions in Ethiopia have hindered effectual working for the aid workers.

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