In the current analysis period of September 2023 – coinciding with the harvest and post-harvest periods or "Impeshi" growing season – 1.52 million people, or 12 percent of the total population (rural) analysed, continued to face high acute food insecurity and were classified in IPC Phase 3 or ab [...]

In the current period of August 2023 – January 2024, which covers the first 2023 harvest and the second 2023 planting and harvesting seasons, 846,000 people (20 percent of the population analysed) are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse) [...]

Approximately 2 million people (33 percent of the analysed population) are facing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) between September 2023 and March 2024, which coincides with the harvest period. The prefectures of Mbomou, Haut-Mbomou, Nana-Mambéré and Ouham have the hi [...]

Between the months of August and September 2023, an estimated 1.59 million people representing 17 percent of the population in Zambia have been classified in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worst. This population will require urgent humanitarian food assistance to reduce food gaps, protect and restore livel [...]

Approximately 5.83 million people – almost half of South Sudan’s population (46 percent) – are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity classified as IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse) between September to November 2023. An estimated 35,000 people are in IPC Phase 5 (Catastrophe) [...]

Between July and December 2023, approximately 25.4 million people are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse). This includes around 3 percent of people (around 3.5 million people) classified in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency) and 20 percent (ar [...]

About 4.35 million people are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity between August 2023 and February 2024 with 1.4 million people classified in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency) and around 2.95 million people are in IPC Phase 3 (Crisis). No humanitarian food assistance has been confirmed for the p [...]

In the current period (July to September 2023), around 245,000 people in rural Lesotho (16 percent of the analysed population) are facing high levels of acute food insecurity - IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse). Urgent action is needed to reduce food gaps, protect, and restore livelihoods as we [...]

Despite the positive impact of the 2023 Gu rains and sustained humanitarian assistance, the levels of acute food insecurity are projected to remain high. Between October to December 2023, 4.3 million people are expected to face Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse outcomes. This includes over 1 million peo [...]

In the current period, from July to September 2023, 579,000 people in Namibia (22 percent of the population) are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) and require urgent action to reduce food gaps and protect livelihoods. Only two regions, Erongo and Khomas are cla [...]