In the 2017 and 2018 editions of the Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition, FAO reported that the prevalence of undernourishment was rising in the region. The latest data shows that the deterioration has slowed, but there remain 256 million hungry people in Africa today. The upward trend in undernourishment over the 2014 to 2018 period in Africa is confirmed by the rise in the prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity, a complementary indicator of food insecurity introduced by FAO in 2017. This measure also shows that in addition to the 277 million people in Africa who are severely food insecure, there are 399 million people who are moderately food insecure, i.e. they did not have regular access to nutritious and sufficient food, even if they were not necessarily suffering from hunger.