East Africa: Africa's Greater Horn Region Is Facing a Looming Polycrisis Fueled By Conflict, Prices, Climate and Disease
The Greater Horn of Africa faces a potential humanitarian polycrisis driven by the combined effects of El Niño, regional conflicts, and disease outbreaks like Ebola. Experts warn that these overlapping factors could lead to catastrophic food insecurity and displacement through 2027.
The impacts of a strengthening El Ni o and the lingering effects of the war in Iran highlight two separate and seemingly unrelated global hazards. But in the Greater Horn of Africa, an area already beset by prolonged crisis and conflict , these factors are combining with others to potentially create a major, multicountry polycrisis.
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