Why famines hit Africa

Unless it can somehow get its population growth under control, it will just go on getting worse.

Men cross the border from South Sudan to Uganda in January. South Sudan is suffering a UN-declared famine, with more than a thousand people dying of hunger each day.Michele Sibiloni photograph courtesy of UNHCR

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 1, 2017

LONDON, U.K.—For the first time in six years, there is famine in the world: a real, United Nations-declared famine, with more than 30 per cent of the affected population suffering acute malnutrition and more than a thousand people dying of hunger each day. And there are three more countries where ...

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