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"Dad and Mum used to work together, and our harvest would be good," says Aaron. "Before, we never went hungry. But things changed drastically when we lost my dad."

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In Somalia, for example, only 30% of children are in school as a result of conflict and what UNICEF calls “extremely high rates of poverty in communities.”

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Cambodia: Auntouch (10) eats rice and sugar when her mother doesn't have enough money for food. She says: "Sometimes I did not go to school if I did not have breakfast. What I want most is to have enough to eat."

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Statistics from the World Bank show that in 2012, poverty in the region was 42.6%, the highest number of people living in extreme poverty in the world.

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"The kids are not going to school and education is going low. We are struggling to get money because I'm working for myself. I'm self-employed – so my business is in my house – so I'm not earning anything now,"- Thandi Lebho

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In 2018, Africa was home to more than half of the global total of acutely food-insecure people, estimated at 65 million people. East Africa had the highest number at 28.6 million, followed by Southern Africa at 23.3 million, and West Africa at 11.2 million.

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An even greater number – 353 million people (70 per cent of the total population in West and Central Africa) – remain without access to basic or safely managed sanitation services. 

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An even greater number – 353 million people (70 per cent of the total population in West and Central Africa) – remain without access to basic or safely managed sanitation services. 

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When 31% of children in sub-Saharan Africa are stunted due to chronic malnutrition, they lack the capacity to learn and contribute to society. It’s because their little bodies don’t get enough of the right nutrients at the right times to support physical and intellectual growth.

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Food prices have escalated, sexual violence has increased, and after COVID, it takes up 1/3 of all assualts

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Children suffer the greatest effects of hunger, even if they don’t look hungry. When children don’t get enough food they feel tired and lack energy to play and learn. Hunger also slows their brain development and learning, meaning they don’t reach their potential, which affects their futures.

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Children lacked adequate opportunities to pursue their right to quality education. According to UNICEF, over 2 million girls remained out of school, and according to government figures about 7,000 schools in the country had no building. Large numbers of children continued to be pressed into forced labour or begging on the streets.

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In Zimbabwe at least 10 people were killed, while thousands including protesters, were arbitrarily arrested and detained in the context of enforcing COVID-19 measures. In Guinea, seven people were killed during demonstrations against the security forces’ enforcement of COVID-19 movement restrictions.

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In Zimbabwe at least 10 people were killed, while thousands including protesters, were arbitrarily arrested and detained in the context of enforcing COVID-19 measures. In Guinea, seven people were killed during demonstrations against the security forces’ enforcement of COVID-19 movement restrictions.

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Safety and freedom breaches in Southern Africa 

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Safety and freedom breaches in Southern Africa 

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For example, 21 women and children had been killed by intimate partners in South Africa by mid-June, while over 3,600 rapes were recorded during the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria. In CAR, the UN recorded 60 cases of conflict-related sexual violence, including rape, forced marriage, and sexual slavery, between June and October.

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School provides access to shelter, meals, clean water, and sanitation facilities.

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Mduduzi Khumalo has been waiting in line every day for two weeks now. His name is never called. “If you’re hungry, it’s easy to get sick. Because of stress and everything Reporter: He was working as a delivery man before the national lockdown dried up his income. His four young children used to receive two meals a day at their local school, which is now closed. “They know that if I don’t get anything for them, it’s over.” says Mduduzi Khumalo.

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As of the year 2019, there was 234 million sub-Saharan Africans were chronically undernourished, more than in any other region.

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Despite these positive responses to educational challenges, however, COVID-19 will continue to exacerbate the access and quality gaps that already exist, especially for girls. 

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Despite these positive responses to educational challenges, however, COVID-19 will continue to exacerbate the access and quality gaps that already exist, especially for girls. 

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The children said they carried heavy loads, crushed ore with hammers, inhaled dust from processing machines, and handled mercury, a toxic chemical that can cause irreversible brain damage. One 16-year-old boy reported handling explosives to blast the ore. Children working in other jobs also described exhaustion and carrying heavy loads.

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One in four children are not growing properly due to hunger

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The Image above shows two children, aged 12 and 9, sluicing for gold.

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“At the same time, armed groups maintained a foothold in West Africa and the Sahel region, attacking civilians in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria. They blighted many lives in Cameroon, the Central African Republic (CAR) and Chad. In response, state security forces also committed grave human rights violations against civilians,”

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About 150 million children under the age of five were estimated to have stunted growth because of hunger in 2017. The COVID-19 global epidemic that began in 2019 and continued through 2020 worsened world hunger. The pandemic posed a particular risk to countries where poverty and lack of health care were already a problem. Hunger was also an existing problem in many of these places. Experts estimated that about 130 million additional people would go hungry in 2020 because of the pandemic. Millions more were expected to be nearing starvation by the end of the year

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About 150 million children under the age of five were estimated to have stunted growth because of hunger in 2017. The COVID-19 global epidemic that began in 2019 and continued through 2020 worsened world hunger. The pandemic posed a particular risk to countries where poverty and lack of health care were already a problem. Hunger was also an existing problem in many of these places. Experts estimated that about 130 million additional people would go hungry in 2020 because of the pandemic. Millions more were expected to be nearing starvation by the end of the year

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The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is pushing children into exploitative and dangerous child labor.

Many children feel they have no choice but to work to help their families survive, but a rise in child labor is not an inevitable consequence of the pandemic.

The Ghanaian government should increase cash assistance to families to prevent further increases in poverty and child labor.

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Health workers operated in insanitary and unsafe environments due to shortages of PPE and sanitizers in 2020.

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Health workers operated in insanitary and unsafe environments due to shortages of PPE and sanitizers in 2020.

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Not as much food,

they may buy cheap but unhealthy food,

others may eat only 1 meal a day,

not eat which leads to malnutrition or other things including diseases and sickness

State of being poor, a person doesn’t have the money or resources/shelter/food they need to live and be healthy

In 2018 8% of the worlds workers and their families lived on US$1.90 a person each day, which is not a lot for food, and only some seeds/crops

Lake chad supports nearly 25 million people in four different countries and has shrunk by almost 90% in the past 60 years

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Across the region, many working in the informal sector have been left without an income or social protections due to lockdowns in 2020 and curfews.

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Across the region, many working in the informal sector have been left without an income or social protections due to lockdowns in 2020 and curfews.

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Across South Sudan, 275,000 children face imminent risk of death from starvation. An additional 1 million people in other parts of the country are literally on the brink of famine, unable to meet their survival needs.

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Some Ghanaian children described work that was clearly hazardous. Fifteen of the children interviewed worked in gold mining, which the government of Ghana has identified as one of the worst forms of child labor. The children said they carried heavy loads, crushed ore with hammers, inhaled dust from processing machines, and handled mercury, a toxic chemical that can cause irreversible brain damage. One 16-year-old boy reported handling explosives to blast the ore. Children working in other jobs also described exhaustion and carrying heavy loads.

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“We are marshalling resources to support vulnerable communities across East Africa to avert the catastrophic effects of hunger, starvation, and loss of livelihoods. 

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“We are marshalling resources to support vulnerable communities across East Africa to avert the catastrophic effects of hunger, starvation, and loss of livelihoods. 

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1 in 3 people in Africa are unnourished

their aim is to grow cheap food to either sell or provide for their family

Land is limited

many farms can’t develop properly due to the weather

insect infection harms farms

40hr famine train farmers on irrigation-based techniques to build crop production

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13-year-old Keynyang, a brave young boy trying to support his family after conflict forced them to flee their home in South Sudan. With no money or food, his family is trying to survive by eating leaves.

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hairdresser Nasreen Pillay has had no income. Without a job contract, she cannot apply for government aid either. 

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hairdresser Nasreen Pillay has had no income. Without a job contract, she cannot apply for government aid either. 

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"We are talking about (people) earning below $1.90 a day ... where basically your life is in danger because, when you have this type of poverty and you cannot eat, you will die,"

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The crisis in the Anglophone region of Cameroon continued unabated. Separatist armed groups targeted people perceived as government supporters. A new low in October saw gunmen kill eight school children and injure several others in the South-West region. In the Far North region, the armed group Boko Haram continued to carry out hundreds of attacks targeting civilians.

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In 2018, in West and Central Africa, only 47 per cent of children completed lower secondary education and 89 per cent of adolescents (91 per cent of girls) from the poorest quintile never attended school or dropped out, although some are in primary education (28 per cent) and 35 per cent of these are girls

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319 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa are without access to improved reliable drinking water sources.

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Kids are very skinny cause they barely get any food

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Kids are very skinny cause they barely get any food

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In sub-Saharan Africa, more than one in five people were already going hungry even before COVID-19 hit, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

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Most people (around 413 million people) in Sub-Saharan Africa are living on less than $1.90 per day.

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Help is necessary to keep Africa hunger and food crises from worsening. Children, especially those younger than 5, are the most vulnerable because they need critical nutrients to build strength and immunity against diseases. 

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Help is necessary to keep Africa hunger and food crises from worsening. Children, especially those younger than 5, are the most vulnerable because they need critical nutrients to build strength and immunity against diseases. 

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In 2018, in West and Central Africa, only 47 per cent of children completed lower secondary education and 89 per cent of adolescents (91 per cent of girls) from the poorest quintile never attended school or dropped out, although some are in primary education (28 per cent) and 35 per cent of these are girls. 

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In 2018, in West and Central Africa, only 47 per cent of children completed lower secondary education and 89 per cent of adolescents (91 per cent of girls) from the poorest quintile never attended school or dropped out, although some are in primary education (28 per cent) and 35 per cent of these are girls. 

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Yet a key obstacle is the high cost of nutritious foods and the low affordability of healthy diets for vast numbers of families.

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At least 12.8 million children are acutely malnourished in the region.

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At least 12.8 million children are acutely malnourished in the region.

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Around 50 per cent of Grade 8
students in Ethiopia are unable to read and write. When
schools closed in March, 26 million children were out
of school, with only 6 million able to regularly access
remote learning. Existing poor education outcomes are
being further worsened by the closure of schools.

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Help is necessary to keep Africa hunger and food crises from worsening. Children, especially those younger than 5, are the most vulnerable because they need critical nutrients to build strength and immunity against diseases. 

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Help is necessary to keep Africa hunger and food crises from worsening. Children, especially those younger than 5, are the most vulnerable because they need critical nutrients to build strength and immunity against diseases. 

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In Burkina Faso, clashes between armed groups, and attacks against civilians, often along ethnic lines, continued. Attacks and killings by different armed groups took place in villages, mosques and cattle markets in the Northern, Sahel and Eastern regions of the country. In Mali, dozens of civilians were killed by various armed groups, especially in the central regions. Notably, in July, gunmen thought to be affiliated with the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims, attacked several villages in the Tori and Diallassagou communes, killing at least 32 civilians. In Nigeria, Boko Haram was responsible for more than 420 civilian deaths and continued to recruit child soldiers and abduct women and girls.

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As progress in fighting hunger stalls, the COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying the vulnerabilities and inadequacies of global food systems - understood as all the activities and processes affecting the production, distribution and consumption of food.

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33.8 million face acute food insecurity.

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33.8 million face acute food insecurity.

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In Africa, hunger is increasing at an alarming rate. The COVID-19 pandemic, conflict, drought, economic woes, and extreme weather are reversing years of progress. As of 2019, 234 million sub-Saharan Africans were chronically undernourished, more than in any other region. In the whole of Africa, 250 million people were experiencing hunger, which is nearly 20% of the population.

World Vision has launched an emergency response for Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, and Uganda to help feed 3.2 million people, including 1.2 million children. We’re supplying families with nutritional care and screening children and pregnant mothers for acute malnutrition.

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Theft and misappropriation of COVID-19 funds, medical equipment and care packages were reported in many countries, including in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Millions of people continued to be displaced from their homes by armed conflict, humanitarian crises and persistent human rights violations. 

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Theft and misappropriation of COVID-19 funds, medical equipment and care packages were reported in many countries, including in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Millions of people continued to be displaced from their homes by armed conflict, humanitarian crises and persistent human rights violations. 

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Asia remains home to the greatest number of undernourished (381 million). Africa is second (250 million), followed by Latin America and the Caribbean (48 million). The global prevalence of undernourishment - or overall percentage of hungry people - has changed little at 8.9 percent, but the absolute numbers have been rising since 2014. This means that over the last five years, hunger has grown in step with the global population.

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"We only have one meal a day. I get really hungry. Food is so scarce. I wish my parents were still alive to help us. I really wish this situation of hunger would stop very soon."

A Child(14) in Sub-Saharan Africa

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With schools closed during 2020, children spend more time at home with heightened stresses in the household and decreased access to external child protection services, resulting in increased exposure to domestic violence.

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With schools closed during 2020, children spend more time at home with heightened stresses in the household and decreased access to external child protection services, resulting in increased exposure to domestic violence.

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Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, with 413 million people living on less than $1.90 per day.

319 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa are without access to improved reliable drinking water sources.

239.1 million people in sub-Saharan Africa were undernourished in 2018.

Africa has the second largest number of undernourished people, after Asia, where 513.8 million people face hunger. This is largely due to the vast population size of Asia: 4.4 billion versus 1.2 billion in Africa.

22.8% of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa is undernourished, the highest prevalence of all regions in the world.

There are about 690 million undernourished people worldwide.

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“I do not attend[School] regularly, because I must work to eat”.
- A 12 Year old Child in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Across sub-Saharan Africa, the closure of schools has seriously disrupted learning. Schools are often a safe haven, providing protection, school meals, health and emotional support for the most disadvantaged children. 

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Across sub-Saharan Africa, the closure of schools has seriously disrupted learning. Schools are often a safe haven, providing protection, school meals, health and emotional support for the most disadvantaged children. 

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Freedom and Safety rights violated due to the ongoing conflict

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Freedom and Safety rights violated due to the ongoing conflict

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Al-Shabaab continued to target civilians and civilian infrastructure in Somalia. In August, it detonated a car bomb in a beachside hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least 11 people and injuring 18 others. In South Sudan, fighting between ethnic groups and clans surged, resulting in the killing of at least 600 people and 450 injuries and the displacement of thousands more.

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“My children suffered from malnutrition due to severe hunger and to the conditions they went through”

“I had anemia, i suffered during my pregnancy”

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Pillay, a 28-year-old mother-of-two from Johannesburg said "People are desperate," Robbers broke into her mother's house two weeks ago, taking speakers, headphones and other items.

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Since South Africa went into lockdown four weeks ago to slow the spread of the coronavirus, hairdresser Nasreen Pillay has had no income. Without a job contract, she cannot apply for government aid either.

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Education is an important concern. A median  of 23% says improving their nation's education should be top priority.