Some 600,000 people are short of food in Burundi due to
drought and flooding in the past year and the number could rise to
700,000 by next year, a World Food Program official said.
Most of those affected are in five provinces in the
north and east of the central African country where around 65,000
people are reported to have fled their villages. It adds to the
challenges experienced by the country of 11 million people that has
been in a political crisis and witnessed sporadic violence for more
than a year.
“The situation is alarming in the north of the country
except that we cannot technically talk of famine… we speak of
situation with high food insecurity; what is called ‘red phase’
but not famine,” Charles Vincent, WFP Burundi country
representative, told Reuters.
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