Significant efforts in the scale-up of multi-sectoral humanitarian assistance, supported by slightly more favourable than previously foreseen rainfall performance, have contributed to a moderate improvement in food security and nutrition outcomes. However, the situation remains at critical levels. [...]

About 1.8 million children under the age of five in Somalia will likely suffer from acute malnutrition over the course of 2023 and are in need of treatment. Of these, nearly 478,000 children are likely severely malnourished. Results from 31 integrated surveys conducted between October and Decembe [...]

Between September and December 2022, an estimated 376,000 people (or 14% of the population), according to the most recent IPC Acute Food Insecurity Analysis conducted in September 2022, were experiencing Crisis or worse (IPC Phase 3 or above), with about 6,000 of those people in Emergency (IPC Phase [...]

Latest data shows a likely unprecedented deterioration in Kenya’s food security situation, with over 5.4 million people experiencing acute food insecurity between March and June this year and likely to deepen in the following months. In the current period (February), corresponding to the short rai [...]

Acute malnutrition across the ASAL counties has significantly deteriorated, and such is the trend over the past seasons. Compared to last year during the same period, the nutrition situation is of great concern: Laisamis in Marsabit County and Turkana South was classified in Extremely Critical level [...]

Timor-Leste ranks 16th according to the World Risk Index, which indicates the country’s severe exposure, vulnerability, and susceptibility to shocks – as well as the lack of coping and adaptive capacities. Floods, in particular, have affected food insecurity significantly in 2022. During the cur [...]

In 2023, it is estimated that nearly 1.8 million children under the age of five will likely be acutely malnourished, including around 1.65 million children in the resident population, 70,000 children from internally displaced households and 60,000 refugee children. Of these, around 414,000 will like [...]

An estimated 4 million children and women in Afghanistan are likely suffering from acute malnutrition through April 2023 and need urgent malnutrition intervention. The latest IPC Acute Malnutrition Analysis projection shows that 875,224 children will suffer/are likely suffering from Severe Acute Mal [...]

Overview of the Acute Malnutrition The latest Acute Malnutrition analysis in the Central African Republic, covering 57 sub-prefectures, four prefectures and the capital city of Bangui, has found that nearly 298,000 children aged 0-59 months and more than 140,600 pregnant and lactating women and lac [...]

In September and October 2022 (during post-harvest season), an estimated 11 percent of the national population, or about 4.4 million people, experienced Emergency (IPC Phase 4) food insecurity, and 30 percent of the national population, or about 12.6 million people, experienced Crisis (IPC Phase 3) [...]