How Severe, How Many and When: Over half a million cases of children aged 0 to 59 months, and more than a quarter of a million cases of pregnant and lactating women, are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition during the course of 2020. Out of the 19 zones included in the IPC Acute Malnutrition ( [...]

The IPC Acute Food Insecurity analysis targeted different units of analysis: nine Karamoja districts, 11 refugee hosting districts and 14 refugee settlements, and 12 main municipalities (seven of which were elevated to city status with effect from July 1, 2020). For the current period (June - Augu [...]

Overview During the current period of September 2020 to April 2021, which corresponds to the post-harvest period in most of the agro-climatic zones of the country, 1.93 million people (41% of the population analysed) face high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above). That includes 40 [...]

Overview Due to the combined effects of widespread and severe flooding, desert locust infestation, socioe-conomic impacts of COVID-19 and the cumulative impacts of previous shocks, up to 2.1 million people across Somalia are expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or abov [...]

DISCLAIMER: please note that this IPC Acute Malnutrition analysis was integrated with an IPC Acute Food Insecurity analysis referring to the same period. Please click here for the AFI maps and tables. The current nutrition situation is likely to deteriorate between October to December 2020 among so [...]

How severe, how many and when: In the current post-harvest period (between August and September), 42,000 people were classified as being in Emergency (IPC Phase 4), while 713,000 (6% of the analysed population) were classified as being in Crisis (IPC Phase 3), and 3,293,000 (28%) in Stressed (IPC [...]

Overview In the current period (July to December 2020) out of the 66.6 million people analysed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 21.8 million (33%) are facing high acute food insecurity, classified in IPC Phase 3 or 4 (Crisis or worse). This figure includes 5.7 million people classified in IPC P [...]

In the current period (July – September 2020), around 428,000 people (17% of the population) are facing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3) or worse, including around 45,000 people in Emergency (IPC Phase 4). This population requires urgent humanitarian action in order to reduce fo [...]

In the current period (July to September 2020), around 10% of the population (1.69 million people) are facing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3) or higher and require urgent action to reduce food gaps, protect and restore livelihoods, and prevent acute malnutrition. Out of the 32 a [...]

Overview Food security analysis for rural populations dependent on Belg pastoral and agro-pastoral areas, conducted in seven regions of Ethiopia, indicates that, despite ongoing Humanitarian Food Assistance (HFA), an estimated 8.5 million people (21% of the 41 million people analysed) are highly ac [...]