A report issued by 11 international organisations working closely with the European Union on food emergency has said that 11 million more persons could go hungry in West Africa in the next three months, bringing the total number of hungry people in the region to 38 million by June.
The report claims that West Africa is hit by its worst food crisis in a decade, with 27 million persons going hungry.
A new historic level, according to the report, had already been reached, with an increase by more than a third over last year.
Over the past decade, the food crisis had been far from abating, but had been increasing across the West African region in Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Mali, and Nigeria. Between 2015 and 2022, the number of people in need of emergency food assistance nearly quadrupled, from 7 to 27 million.
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