In a report in May, 16 organizations including FAO and WFP said at least 155 million people faced acute hunger in 2020, including 133,000 who needed urgent food to prevent widespread death from starvation, a 20 million increase from 2019. And that number is expected to double by the end of the year with 28,000 people needing urgent help, the two agencies said. In southern Madagascar, which has been hit by the worst drought in the past 40 years, pests affecting staple crops, and rising food prices - 14,000 people are expected to be pushed into “catastrophic” acute food insecurity marked by starvation and death by September. They put Ethiopia at the top of the list, saying the number of people facing starvation and death is expected to rise to 401,000 - the highest number since the 2011 famine in Somalia - if humanitarian aid isn’t provided quickly. The Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Program said in a new report on “Hunger Hotspots” between August and November that “acute food insecurity is likely to further deteriorate.” UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Hunger is expected to rise in 23 global hotspots in the next three months with the highest alerts for “catastrophic” situations in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, southern Madagascar, Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria, two U.N.