Very recently, in which of the following countries have lakhs of people either suffered from severe famine/acute malnutrition or died due to starvation caused by war/ethnic conflicts ?
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Answer: D. In 2017, the UN warned of famine and severe hunger in Yemen (Saudi-led war against Houthis) and South Sudan (civil war since 2013); famine was formally declared in parts of South Sudan in February 2017. So option D.
Watch for: Venezuela's food shortages were in news, but they were not caused by war or ethnic conflict.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Wrong because Angola and Zambia had no war-driven famine at that time.
- B. Wrong because Morocco and Tunisia faced no such famine.
- C. Wrong because Venezuela's crisis was economic, not a war-caused famine, and Colombia had none.
Source to check: UN OCHA and World Food Programme statements on famine risk in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria (2017)
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