Famine has been declared twice in the past 13 years: in Somalia in 2011 and in parts of South Sudan in 2017
Joyce said he will step down on Monday as leader of the National party, the junior partner in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s centre-right coalition. He will remain in parliament, safeguarding Turnbull’s shaky one-seat majority.
Joyce, a practising Catholic, has been married for 24 years and has campaigned on “family values”.