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Thursday, 24 June 2021 (YJC) _ The United Nations is warning that tens of thousands of people in Madagascar are on the brink of starvation.
The United Nations is warning that tens of thousands of people in Madagascar are on the brink of starvation.
The World Food Programme says acute malnutrition has almost doubled over the last four months as the south of the island faces its worst drought in 40 years. The World Food Program says climate change is to blame.
World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley, explained that he’d met women and children who had “walked for hours” to get to the food distribution points.
“These were the ones who were healthy enough to make it”, he added.
Southern Madagascar is experiencing its worst drought in four decades with more than 1.14 million people food insecure, the top UN official said in a statement, from a nutrition centre in the region.
Of those, an estimated 14,000 people are already in catastrophic conditions, known as IPC Phase 5, which will double by October.
“There have been back-to-back droughts in Madagascar which have pushed communities right to the very edge of starvation”, he explained.
Drawing attention to suffering families and people dying from severe hunger, he spelled out that “this is not because of war or conflict, this is because of climate change”.
While this area of the world has contributed nothing to climate change, they are “paying the highest price”, he added.
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