40.4 million people facing high levels of food insecurity across the IGAD region with the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance on the rise.
IGAD estimates that 8.1 million people are food insecure in Ethiopia, 3.5 million in Kenya, 7.7 million in Somalia, 8.9 million in South Sudan, 10.6 million in Sudan, and 1.6 million in Uganda.
The most current estimates by experts across IGAD Member States show that the number has increased by 30 percent from the 29 million that had been…
