{"id":6437,"date":"2016-04-22T22:36:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T22:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=6437"},"modified":"2016-04-22T22:36:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T22:36:13","slug":"drought-in-eritrea-hunger-despite-government-denials-from-the-sectionafrica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2016\/04\/22\/drought-in-eritrea-hunger-despite-government-denials-from-the-sectionafrica\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought in Eritrea: Hunger despite government denials From the sectionAfrica"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image caption<\/span>Eritreans risk all to cross their heavily mined and guarded border to seek sanctuary in Ethiopia<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The drought and famine that is devastating the Horn of Africa is affecting more than 12 million people.<\/p>\n

Yet one country in the region, Eritrea, says it has escaped the crisis, reaping a bumper harvest earlier this year.<\/p>\n

But evidence is now mounting that the real situation in the secretive country may be rather different, with up to two in three Eritreans going hungry.<\/p>\n

In the last decade Eritrea has become one of the world’s most closed nations with no free press and no opposition.<\/p>\n

So it has been difficult to verify the Eritrean government’s claims that the population has the food it needs.<\/p>\n

But it has now been possible to piece together an alternative picture from a variety of sources.<\/p>\n

There is an increasing trend of acute malnutrition in children under five in many areas.<\/p>\n