Dangerous Delay 2: The Cost of Inaction
Background media: In the foreground of the photo, four brown-skinned women stand with their backs to the camera. Each woman wears a brightly-coloured head scarf. They pose together for a light-skinned, masculine presenting photographer, who can be seen in the background of the photo.
Petterik Wiggers/Oxfam
Around the world, 181 million are forecast to be in crisis levels of hunger in 2022.
Oxfam and Save the Children estimate that, on average, across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, one person is dying every 48 seconds from acute hunger linked to conflict, COVID-19, the climate crisis, and accelerated inflationary and market pressures by the current conflict in Ukraine.
In 2012, in the aftermath of the crisis, Save the Children and Oxfam authored "Dangerous Delay: the cost of late response to early warnings in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa." A decade later, Somalia is at risk of famine. Recent UN predictions suggest that 350,000 Somali children may die by the summer if action is not taken immediately.
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Oxfam
Save the Children