As leaders meet in London to discuss the deepening global food security crisis, aid groups call for urgent and scaled up assistance for communities in East and Central Africa

Nairobi, 20 November 2023 – With close to 90 million people across East and Central Africa facing unprecedented levels of hunger, the Interagency Working Group for East and Central Africa (the IAWG) today called on donors and governments to urgently scale up assistance for communities in need and invest in long-term solutions to tackle the root causes of hunger. The appeal comes in the context of the Global Food Security Summit being held in London today, aimed at focusing international attention on ending hunger and malnutrition.