The spread of COVID-19 risks devastating countries across East Africa, where food insecurity could more than double in just three months, the United Nations warns.
The UN’s World Food Program (WFP) estimates that some 20 million people currently do not have secure provisions of food across nine countries in the region: Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia and Uganda.
Compared to other parts of the world, these countries have so far registered few confirmed COVID-19 cases, with numbers still counted in the dozens or hundreds.
In this photo taken March 26, 2020, children sit on a wall overlooking densely packed houses in the Sayidka camp for internally displaced people in Mogadishu, Somalia (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
However, due to their often weak economies and poor health infrastructure they are considered highly vulnerable to the impacts of the mounting crisis.
— AFP
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