11 May 2021 Southern Madagascar: Government and UN sound the alarm on famine risk, urge action
Photo: WFP/Krystyna Kovalenko, a child living in the Sihanamaro Commune, one of epicentres of food security crisis in the Grand Sud of Madagascar. Pressing need to upscale both food aid and agricultural livelihoods assistance to head off a worst-case scenario
ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR: With each day that passes, more lives are at stake as hunger tightens its grip in southern Madagascar. This is the stark warning from two United Nations agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), as they seek to draw international attention to a humanitarian crisis that risks being invisible.