Hunger hit Africa hard this year as climate change, conflict and lasting poverty destroyed multiple countries and left tens of millions of people in terrible conditions. Countries as 1) _____ as South Sudan, Malawi and the Central African Republic have sounded the alarm in recent months. The U.N. World Food Program says sub-Saharan Africa already has the world's 2) _____ prevalence of hunger. Every day in Africa, 23 million children 3) _____ school hungry. The agency's David Orr said that in the lower half of Africa, where weather is the main criminal, this year has been an 4)_____ difficult year. "I think what makes things different this is the 5) _____ of drought and then an El Nino weather event coming right after that, so that people are 6) ______ being hit by two consecutive years of 7) _____. It's particularly difficult on a region where 70 percent of the population are subsistence farmers." But African governments say they, too, they have an 8) _____ role to play, and that the hunger crisis is their failure as well. Malawi's minister of finance earlier this year 9) _____ his nation's hunger situation as "a scandal". In Ethiopia, the government has committed a record sum, $192 million dollars amid news that as many as 10 million people will face 10) _____ food shortages next year because of a severe drought.