Started
Mar 13, 2020 05:00PM UTC
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Closed
Jan 01, 2021 08:01AM UTC
Will the UN declare that a famine exists in any part of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, or Uganda in 2020?
The spread of desert locusts in East Africa is testing an already food-insecure region (BBC, Foreign Policy, Food and Agriculture Organization). For general information on how famines are declared, see: Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, NPR.
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The question closed "No" with a closing date of 1 January 2021.
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