In famine, ‘f’ is for failure | Hunger

In East Africa, famine is once again looming. We have to act now to save lives.

A person dies of hunger every 30 seconds in East Africa, where famine is looming for the third time in little more than a decade. It does not have to be this way.

This crisis – fuelled by climate change, conflict and economic shocks – has left almost 29 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan in urgent need of humanitarian assistance and protection. That number is the equivalent of the combined populations of Belgium and the Netherlands.

In Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, five consecutive…