The worst floods in decades across a swath of West and Central Africa are deepening a record food-insecurity crisis in a region where the United Nations says 55 million people are already going hungry.
While aid agencies and governments are rushing to feed and shelter millions of displaced people, they’re struggling to meet the scale of the disaster. There are more food insecure people in the conflict-wracked region with some of the world’s poorest countries than the entire population of South Korea.