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UN: Thousands in West Africa face acute food shortage
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Central and West Africa are at the brink of famine as the regions face a 10-year-high food insecurity caused by the coronavirus pandemic, climate change, and high prices.
The number of people without regular access to safe and nutritious food is projected to hit 48 million during the June-August lean season, according to a regional food security analysis presented by the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP), humanitarian agency OCHA, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and children's agency UNICEF.
That is driven in part by the plight of countries in the semi-arid Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert including Mali and Burkina Faso which are battling an Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands and displaced around 2.5 million.
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