Food insecurity continued to escalate, with 88.7 million people in the region estimated to be highly food insecure and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. This included 72.9 million people in 10 of the 13 countries covered by the FSNWG, according to IPC analyses, in addition to 15.8 million people in Ethiopia, as per the 2024 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). Of these, 57.1 million were in seven of the eight IGAD member states.