An estimated 5.8 million people (33 percent of the analysed population) will likely experience heightened hunger between October 2024 and March 2025. The IPC projects that nearly 5.6 million people will likely experience IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) and 236,000 people IPC Phase 4 (Emergency). Seven addition [...]

Haiti continues to face a worsening humanitarian crisis, with alarming rates of armed gang violence disrupting daily life, forcing more people to flee their homes and levels of acute food insecurity to rise. Nearly half of the population (48 percent) are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, [...]

The erratic rainfall between May and June 2024 led to a reduction in crop production in agropastoral livelihoods. While the Gu rains improved pasture and water availability in pastoral livelihoods, localized floods affected populations in riverine and adjacent urban areas in Hiraan, Gedo, Middle Sha [...]

During the current period of analysis, from July to September 2024, 1.15 million people in Namibia (38 percent of the analysed population) face high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) and require urgent action to reduce food gaps and protect livelihoods; all the 14 areas of analy [...]

The cumulative seasonal benefits of the March to May 2024 Long Rains brought above-average rainfall across the country, particularly in Kenya's arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) counties, leading to a significant improvement in food security compared to the same period last year.  In the current per [...]

The latest IPC Acute Food Insecurity analysis covers all 22 departments of Guatemala, revealing that approximately 2.7 million people are expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) during the first projection period. These individuals will require urgent interventio [...]

Mozambique is facing high levels of acute food insecurity in the aftermath of the cyclone season, impacting 63 of the most affected districts, which represent 39 percent of the country's total. From April to September 2024, approximately 2.79 million people are experiencing Acute Food Insecurity (I [...]

Prolonged dry spells, high temperatures, and economic challenges have left approximately 293,000 people in rural Lesotho (19 percent of the population) facing severe food insecurity, classified as IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) or worse, from May to September 2024. Immediate interventions are crucial to addre [...]

In Eswatini, an estimated 243,483 people, equivalent to 20 percent of the population, are experiencing IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) in the current period, spanning from June to September 2024. In the projected period, from October 2024 to March 2025, the number of people experiencing IPC Phase 3 or above (C [...]

In the current period (May-September 2024), 12 percent of the rural population in the 36 districts analysed, or 1.22 million people, are facing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above). The most affected districts are Ambovombe Androy and Amboasary Atsimo. Since the end of 2023, [...]