SOME 28 million people are going hungry in sub-Saharan Africa because of drought and civil war, the UN food agency said in a report this week. The Food and Agriculture Organisation said in Eritrea, some 1.5 million people have been displaced by a two-year border war – now officially over – with Ethiopia, and they, along with another 340 000 Eritreans, face hunger. In Kenya, some 3.3 million people, most of them nomad herders, depend on food aid for survival, the FAO report said. The UN agency said there would be food shortages in Sudan in the next few months because of bad harvests. Poor harvests have also badly affected northeastern Uganda, exacerbated by cattle raids between rival tribesmen. In Africa’s Great Lakes region, the situation is catastrophic, the report said. Around two million people have been displaced by fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and have difficulty getting food, while 300 000 people need food aid in neighbouring Rwanda. Food aid is also necessary in Angola, where 25 years of almost continual fighting between the government and UNITA rebels have forced more than 2.5 million people to flee. – AFP