Poor dry season rainfall over large areas of the Bakol region had led to extreme crop losses almost everywhere, representing the seventh consecutive poor harvest in the area. FSAU and FEWS both confirmed reports of recent food-related human deaths. Deteriorating food security conditions across the border in Ethiopia were making the outlook for Bakol even bleaker, FSAU stressed.
Malnutrition is widespread and increasing.
The resumption of food deliveries to the region was urgently needed to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe, it pointed out.