Severe famine is expected in Africa

By: Trademagazin editor Date: 2020. 08. 24. 11:11

Climate change, locust infestation, civil wars, terrorism, and now the coronavirus. Sub-Saharan Africa is a continual crisis zone anyway, so despite the rapid response of governments and previous deceptive hopes that SARS-CoV-2 will not spread so well in the tropics, preparations must be made to make it impossible that due to the lack of food supply, many millions of people will starve to death in the coming years. However, the development of the mobile network could help them – index wrote.

Now, for once, it is really impossible to blame the poorly functioning governments and administrations of African countries for the delay. In many countries, the most stringent restrictive measures have been put in place and resources have been diverted to vital economic sectors, notably agriculture, before the infection has (verifiably) appeared in the country. But that didn’t help either, Africa is simply not strong enough to resist the pandemic. (index)