World: More than 170 million women and girls experiencing hunger ahead of potentially record-breaking El Niño

Country: World Source: CARE As an unprecedented El Niño develops in the Pacific Ocean, millions of people across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Middle East face worsening hunger, disease outbreaks and forced displacement, with women and girls bearing the heaviest burden. There are already 172.3 million women and girls at risk of food insecurity in the countries expected to be worst affected by El Niño, a phenomenon that disrupts weather patterns around the world and that is being made more frequent and intense by