By Abbas Yakubu Yaura
Kimanin mutane miliyan 13 ne a kasashen Kenya, Somaliya da Habasha ke fuskantar matsananciyar yunwa yayin da yankin kahon Afirka ke fama da fari mafi muni cikin shekaru da dama, in ji hukumar samar da abinci ta duniya a jiya Talata.
Damina guda uku a jere sun yi kasa saboda yanayin damina ya fi kamari tun a shekarar 1981, in ji hukumar ta Majalissar Dinkin Duniya.
Fari ya lalata amfanin gona tare da yi sanadin mutuwar dabbobi masu yawan gaske, wanda ya tilastawa iyalan karkara da suka dogara da kiwo da noma yin watsi da gidajensu.
Ruwa da filayen kiwo suna cikin karancin wadata kuma hasashen da ake yi na samun karancin ruwan sama a watanni masu zuwa kawai na kara yin barazana, in ji Michael Dunford, darektan WFP na yankin gabashin Afirka.
“Girbi ya lalace, dabbobi suna mutuwa, kuma yunwa na karuwa yayin da fari da ke ci gaba da shafar yankin kahon Afirka,” in ji shi a cikin wata sanarwa.
“Halin da ake ciki na bukatar daukar matakan jin kai cikin gaggawa” domin kaucewa sake afkuwar rikici irin na Somalia a shekarar 2011, lokacin da mutane 250,000 suka mutu saboda yunwa a lokacin da aka dade ana fama da fari.
Ana raba tallafin kayan abinci a yankunan Kenya da Habasha da kuma Somaliya inda ake fama da matsalar karancin abinci mai gina jiki kuma kimanin mutane miliyan 13 ke fuskantar barazanar yunwa a rubu’in farko na bana.
Kimanin mutane miliyan 5.7 ne ke bukatar agajin abinci a kudanci da kudu maso gabashin kasar Habasha, ciki har da yara da mata masu fama da tamowa rabin miliyan.
A Somalia, ana sa ran adadin mutanen da aka ware a matsayin masu tsananin yunwa zai karu daga miliyan 3.5 zuwa miliyan 4.6 nan da watan Mayu matukar ba a dauki matakan gaggawa ba.
Wasu mutane miliyan 2.8 na bukatar taimako a kudu maso gabas da arewacin Kenya, inda aka ayyana dokar ta baci a watan Satumba.
WFP ta ce ana bukatar dala miliyan 327 don magance bukatu cikin gaggawa nan da watanni shida masu zuwa tare da tallafa wa al’ummomin makiyaya domin su kara kaimi kan sauyin yanayi.
A cikin shekarar 2011, rashin ruwan sama ya haifar da bushewar shekara tun shekara ta 1951 a yankuna masu busassun Kenya, Somaliya, Habasha, Djibouti da Uganda.
Masana sun ce matsanancin yanayi na faruwa tare da karuwa da yawa saboda sauyin yanayi – tare da Afirka, wanda ke ba da gudummawa ga mafi ƙanƙanta ga ɗumamar yanayi, wanda ke ɗaukar nauyi.