The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned on the 12th that problems such as extreme poverty, inequality and food crisis are intensifying globally, and that hundreds of millions of people around the world will face hunger in the coming months. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about 346 million people in Africa are currently facing severe famine, about a quarter of Africa's total population, of which 10 million and 7 million in South Sudan are facing food shortages, while Niger and Mauritania in the Sahel region are 40% below the average of the past five years. The ICRC also notes that children are particularly affected by this food crisis. In Somalia, for example, the ICRC's stabilization centre in Somalia has treated almost 50 percent more children under the age of five with acute severe malnutrition than in the same period last year. (Phoenix SATELLITE TV solution comprehensive report)
