HIGHLIGHTS
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While the number of severely food insecure and famine-affected people has fallen since the height of the drought crisis, high food prices and the large displaced population continue to strain food security across the Horn of Africa.
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In Somalia, the number of people in crisis has fallen from 4 to 2.34 million people. However, high rates of malnutrition, insecurity and the suspension of key humanitarian actors by Al Shabab continue to be of concern.
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Violence in the border states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, combined with erratic and late onset of rains in 2011 have resulted in poor yields in the Sudan – with harvests at only 50 percent of the previous year.
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Over 1 million people are likely to be severely food insecure in South Sudan in 2012 owing to a combination of violence, erratic rains and high food and fuel prices, leading to a deficit of about 50 percent of cereal needs.