This update, facilitated by the Food Security Information Network and produced under the Global Network against Food Crises, provides the members of the United Nations Security Council with an overview of the magnitude, severity and drivers of acute food insecurity in nine countries and territories that have the world’s highest burden of people in need of emergency food, nutrition and livelihood assistance as a result of protracted conflict combined with other factors.

This issue focuses on the acute food insecurity situation in:

• Afghanistan,
• the Central African Republic,
• the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
• the Lake Chad Basin,
• Somalia,
• South Sudan,
• the Sudan,
• the Syrian Arab Republic,
• Yemen.