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The United Nations is appealing to donors for $500 million in emergency funding to help feed displaced Kenyans and other Africans in increasing danger of going hungry.
“A perfect storm” is threatening millions as food prices soar and as the need for aid grows rapidly, UN World Food Programme director Josette Sheeran warned last week. During a visit to East Africa, Ms Sheeran said food prices are likely to continue rising, making it harder and harder for the poorest Africans to maintain subsistence diets.
“We are seeing a new face of hunger,” Ms Sheeran declared at a UN conference in Ethiopia last week. “We are seeing more urban hunger than ever before. Often, we are seeing food on the shelves but people being unable to afford it.”