Nairobi, Kenya – 14 June 2023 – The Member States of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) continued to grapple with a severe food crisis in 2022, with over 55 million people facing acute hunger and requiring urgent food, nutrition, and livelihood...
The first Regional Steering Committee Meeting of the program to Build Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security in the Horn of Africa (BREFONS) was organized in Djibouti on 29-30 May 2023. The meeting reviewed the progress of implementing the project activities,...
The unprecedented food crisis situation in the Horn of Africa has created demand in the food security community for discussions about how to achieve humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) coherence. HDP coherence involves linking efforts across the spectrum of...
The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2023 estimates that over a quarter of a billion people were acutely food-insecure and required urgent food assistance in 58 food-crisis countries in 2022. This is the highest number in the seven-year history of the GRFC. The...
December 3, 2022 (KHARTOUM, Sudan): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) held the 15th Steering Committee Meeting of its Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI) on November 30 and December 1 in Khartoum. Member States and...
