{"id":10321,"date":"2022-10-15T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T16:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2"},"modified":"2022-10-15T16:51:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T16:51:49","slug":"over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2","title":{"rendered":"Over one million people facing severe hunger in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>The world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive yet more people into worsening levels of acute food insecurity, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in call for urgent action to address the root causes of today\u2019s crisis ahead of World Food Day tomorrow \u2013 16 October.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are facing an unprecedented global food crisis and all signs suggest we have not yet seen the worst. For the last three years hunger numbers have repeatedly hit new peaks. Let me be clear: things can and will get worse unless there is a large scale and coordinated effort to address the root causes of this crisis. We cannot have another year of record hunger,\u201d said WFP Executive Director David Beasley.<\/p>\n

The global food crisis is a confluence of competing crises \u2013 caused by climate shocks, conflict, and economic pressures \u2013 that has continued to push up the number of severely food insecure people all around the world.<\/p>\n

In Sierra Leone, a lean season food security analysis that the Ministry of Agriculture conducted jointly with WFP in August found that food insecurity has further deteriorated, with over one million people (15 percent) facing severe hunger.<\/p>\n

The Food Security Monitoring System analysis showed a significant impact of the rising food prices, exacerbated by the Ukraine crisis with the vast majority of households spending over 75 percent of their income on food.<\/p>\n

Building on this year\u2019s theme for World Food Day \u2013 \u201cNo one left behind\u201d<\/b> \u2013 WFP is calling for coordinated effort across governments, financial institutions (IFIs), private sector, and partners to mitigate an even a more severe food crisis in 2023. This includes the reinforcement of national economies, social protection systems, and regional and domestic food systems \u2013 at speed and at scale.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne action we must take now is provide school feeding while scaling up cash transfers in the most food insecure communities so that the people\u2019s condition does not deteriorate further,\u201d the WFP Country Director, Yvonne Forse\u0301n, said.<\/p>\n

Forse\u0301n said that with funding from Japan, Germany and Sweden, WFP is providing school feeding in Kambia, Karene and Pujehun districts to reach over 118,000 children.<\/p>\n

WFP urgently needs additional funding \u2013 US$ 2.6 million \u2013 to provide emergency cash transfers to 46,000 people in Tonkolili, Port Loko and Pujehun districts where levels of food insecurity are highest.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Sierra-Leone<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. The world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive yet more people into worsening levels of acute food insecurity, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in call for urgent action to address the root causes of today\u2019s crisis ahead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[291,293,292],"class_list":["post-10321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone"],"yoast_head":"\nOver one million people facing severe hunger in Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive yet more people i ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Over one million people facing severe hunger in Sierra Leone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive yet more people i ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sierra Leone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-15T16:45:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-15T16:51:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_4-634ae50f23bc1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"514\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Over one million people facing severe hunger in Sierra Leone\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-15T16:45:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-15T16:51:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2\"},\"wordCount\":411,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_4-634ae50f23bc1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Sierra-Leone\",\"Sierra-Leone\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"files\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2\",\"name\":\"Over one million people facing severe hunger in Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_4-634ae50f23bc1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-15T16:45:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-15T16:51:49+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive yet more people i ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_4-634ae50f23bc1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_4-634ae50f23bc1.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":514,\"caption\":\"Over one million people facing severe hunger in Sierra Leone\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Over one million people facing severe hunger in Sierra Leone\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/\",\"name\":\"Sierra Leone\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Over one million people facing severe hunger in Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone","description":"The world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive yet more people i ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Over one million people facing severe hunger in Sierra Leone","og_description":"The world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive yet more people i ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2","og_site_name":"Sierra Leone","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-10-15T16:45:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-10-15T16:51:49+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":514,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_4-634ae50f23bc1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Over one million people facing severe hunger in Sierra Leone","datePublished":"2022-10-15T16:45:21+00:00","dateModified":"2022-10-15T16:51:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2"},"wordCount":411,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_4-634ae50f23bc1.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Sierra-Leone","Sierra-Leone"],"articleSection":["all news","files"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2","name":"Over one million people facing severe hunger in Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_4-634ae50f23bc1.jpg","datePublished":"2022-10-15T16:45:21+00:00","dateModified":"2022-10-15T16:51:49+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive yet more people i ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_4-634ae50f23bc1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_4-634ae50f23bc1.jpg","width":720,"height":514,"caption":"Over one million people facing severe hunger in Sierra Leone"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/over-one-million-people-facing-severe-hunger-in-sierra-leone-2#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Over one million people facing severe hunger in Sierra Leone"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/","name":"Sierra Leone","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}