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(AFP) \u2014 The International Committee of the Red Cross warned Tuesday that a major hunger crisis in Africa is \u201cgoing largely unnoticed\u201d as the world focuses on Ukraine and other crises.<\/p>

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Some 346 million people \u2014 more than one in four people across Africa \u2014 are suffering from \u201calarming\u201d hunger and that number will probably rise in the coming months, the ICRC said.<\/p>\n

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The crisis spans the continent from drought-ravaged Somalia and Ethiopia in the east to Mauritania and Burkina Faso in the west, it said.<\/p>

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But, it warned, funding to assist millions going without meals is in short supply.<\/p>

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\u201cThis is a disaster going largely unnoticed. Millions of families are going hungry and children are dying because of malnutrition,\u201d ICRC head of global operations Dominik Stillhart told reporters in Nairobi.<\/p>\n

He said global attention on the \u201cterrible\u201d plight of civilians in Ukraine \u201cshould not prevent the world from looking at other crises\u201d.<\/p>

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The conflict in Ukraine has also contributed to rising food and fuel costs and supply chain disruptions, amplifying the economic effect of the coronavirus pandemic, the ICRC added.<\/p>\n

The ICRC has budgeted $1 billion euros (US$1.1 billion) this year for its humanitarian response across Africa but faces a $800-million-euro shortfall.<\/p>

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\u201cWe are scaling up our operations\u2026 to help as many people as we can, but the number of people going without food and water is staggering,\u201d said Stillhart.<\/p>

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The UN\u2019s World Food Programme (WFP) warned last month that over 70 per cent of South Sudan\u2019s population would face extreme hunger this year because of natural disasters and armed instability.<\/p>\n

More than six million people in eastern and southern Ethiopia would need \u201clife-saving\u201d interventions this year as the region suffers its worst drought in decades, the UN said in January.<\/p>\n

In Burkina Faso, the number of people displaced by hunger had more than doubled in the past year.<\/p>\n

Stillhart also warned about the underlying impact on harvests from climate change.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current food security crisis is clearly the result of combined effects of conflict\u2026 but it is also the effect of repeated climate shocks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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