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A senior food and nutrition adviser to Nepad, the development arm of the African Union, has claimed that twelve people die of hunger every minute in Africa. If true it would mean that 94,000 people – enough to fill the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg – are dying of hunger every five-and-a-half days.

During an interview on SABC’s Morning Live programme which focussed on “food insecurity” and widespread malnutrition in Africa, Boitshepo Giyose said: “[A]bout 300-million Africans are undernourished. That is simply unacceptable…Twelve people die of hunger and malnutrition every minute”.

She is not the first to make the claim.

In an article published by the Daily Maverick in May this year, Jay Naidoo, chair of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, wrote: “Across this continent, 12 Africans die every minute as a result of hunger and malnutrition.” The claim was repeated by Naidoo in a column for New Africanmagazine. Nigeria’s This Day newspaper has also cited the figure.

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