Millions of displaced families across eastern Africa will fa”ll deeper into hunger as food rations dwindle due to humanitarian resources being stretched to the limit as the world grapples with a toxic cocktail of conflict, climate shocks, and COVID-19, combined with spiraling costs of food and fuel,” UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on April 13.
Despite efforts to make resources stretch through prioritization strategies, meaning food assistance is prioritized for the most vulnerable families, “the sheer number of refugees in need of support has grown, along with the gap between resourcing and needs. In the past decade the number of refugees in eastern Africa has nearly tripled, going from 1.82 million in 2012 to almost 5 million today including 300,000 new refugees last year alone,” the agencies said in a joint news release.
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