Nutrition and Food Security

Country	Cause	Numbers at risk	Action needed
Angola	Returnees, public health
Botswana	Adverse weather
Burkina Faso	Drought, locusts in parts
Burundi	Civil strife, IDPs and returnees
Central African Republic	Civil strife
Chad	Refugees, lack of rainfall	213314	Highest Priority—Urgent Action Required
Congo	Civil strife, IDPs
Congo Democratic Republic	Civil strife, IDPs and refugees
Cote d'Ivoire	Civil strife, IDPs
Djibouti	Drought	100000	Urgent Action Required
Eritrea	Drought, IDPs, returnees	2200000	Highest Priority—Urgent Action Required
Ethiopia	Adverse weather, IDPs	10000000	Highest Priority—Urgent Action Required
Guinea	IDPs and refugees
Kenya	Adverse weather	1600000	Urgent Action Required
Lesotho	Drought
Liberia	Civil strife, IDPs
Madagascar	Drought in southern parts
Malawi	Drought in parts	4220000	Urgent Action Required
Mali	Drought, locusts in parts
Mauritania	Drought, locusts	1000000	Highest Priority—Urgent Action Required
Morocco	Drought
Mozambique	Drought (south)	588000	Preparedness and Monitoring Required
Niger	Drought, locusts in parts	2500000	Highest Priority—Urgent Action Required
Senegal	Drought, locusts in parts
Sierra Leone	Returnees
Somalia	Civil strife, drought in parts	1000000	Highest Priority—Urgent Action Required
Sudan	Civil strife, drought in parts		Urgent Action Required
Swaziland	Drought in parts
Uganda	Civil strife, IDPs	2690000	Urgent Action Required
United Republic of Tanzania	Drought in parts, refugees
Zambia	Adverse weather in parts	1000000	Preparedness and Monitoring Required
Zimbabwe	Adverse weather, economic crisis	4000000	Highest Priority—Urgent Action Required

As of the start of June 2005 at least 27 million people from 33 countries are at risk in a massive hunger crisis gripping the African continent.

Data from GIEWS (Global Information and Early Warning System on Food)& FEWS (Famine Early Warning System)