Vedvarende tørke har sendt henimod 4 millioner mennesker mod fødevaresikkerhed i Malawi og olierige Angola i det sydlige Afrika, rapporterer Irin News mandag.
JOHANNESBURG, 17. december, 2012 (IRIN): Humanitarian aid agencies have been trying to shine a spotlight on crises in the region, even as the situations in Syria and the Sahel continue to dominate headlines.
Squeezed supplies and a towering inflation rate have kept the price of the main staple grain, maize, high throughout the region. Malawi and Mozambique have seen prices climb 40 to 100 percent since 2011. Angola, meanwhile, is experiencing its worst drought in years, according to UN agencies.
Malawi
Poor harvests are plaguing the Malawi’s vulnerable Southern Region. Residents there are also grappling with rising inflation (28 percent in September, compared to three percent in 2011), the 49 percent devaluation of the Malawi kwacha, and few opportunities to work as a casual labourers – factors that have together pushed the number of food-insecure persons to nearly 2 million, up from an estimated 1.6 million in June.
Even with humanitarian assistance, which started in early September, households in nine districts in southern Malawi have remained in phase two – or the stressed level – of the Integrated Phase Classification, a scale for measuring the intensity of food insecurity. In areas where aid has not yet been disbursed, people are in phase three, crisis level.
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