Four countries face famine threat as global food crisis deepens Reuters – WBNews

left right A child is checked for signs of malnutrition by a United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) health worker during a registration prior to a humanitarian food distribution carried out by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Thonyor, Leer county, South Sudan, February 25, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola 1/4 left right Internally displaced Somali children eat boiled rice outside their family’s makeshift shelter at the Al-cadaala camp in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu March 6, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar 2/4 left right People gather to collect food rations at a food distribution center in Sanaa, Yemen March 21, 2017. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah 3/4 left right A young child plays by the thatch shacks used by many refugees to build their homes in the Muna Garage area in the city of Maiduguri, Nigeria February 16, 2017. REUTERS/Paul Carsten 4/4 LONDON Global food crises worsened significantly in 2016 and conditions look set to deteriorate further this year in some areas with an increasing risk of famine, a report said on Friday. “There is a high risk of famine in some areas of north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen because of armed conflict, drought and macro-economic collapse,” the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) said. FSIN, which is co-sponsored by the United Nations food agency, the World Food Programme and the International Food Policy Research Institute, said the demand for humanitarian assistance was escalating. FSIN said that 108 million people were reported to be facing crisis level food insecurity or worse in 2016, a…more detail