The Global Hunger Index (GHI) across African countries reveals a continent largely battling serious levels of hunger. North African countries like Tunisia (6.2) and Algeria (7.1) fall within the low hunger category, but this stability quickly gives way to moderate and serious levels across much of sub-Saharan Africa, where countries such as Cape Verde (9.4) and Ghana (13.1) reflect escalating hunger conditions.
The situation becomes more critical in fragile and conflict-affected states, where countries like DR Congo (37.5), Somalia (42.6), and Burundi (49.9) enter the alarming category, nearing the threshold of extreme hunger. This distribution shows that hunger in Africa is not uniform but layered, ranging from stability to crisis, driven by underlying factors captured in the GHI’s core indicators: undernourishment, child malnutrition, and mortality.
