4 hours agoUN: 155 million people faced hunger last year
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Deep levels of hunger have affected at least 155 million people last year as a result of conflicts, economic damage caused by the pandemic and extreme weather, until the situation this year is the same or even more severe, has been said in a report compiled by 16 organisations. Two thirds [...]
Two thirds of the people facing this crisis are from 10 countries of Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Sudan, Congo, northern Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Haiti.
The 155 million people face “crisis”, <x2 emergency>” or catastrophic hunger rates, which represents a 20 percent increase in the number of people who have faced something like this, compared to 2019, the report said.
The number of people facing deep uncertainty in food and urgently seeking food and life aid is increasing”, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said as he presented the Global Food Crisis Report.
In the 21st century, there is no room for hunger”, Guterres said.
We need to fight hunger and conflict to solve each other's problem”
The report, covering 55 states, has also said that 73,000 people in Burkina Faso, South Sudan and Yemen are in urgent need of food to prevent starvation deaths.
The leading economist at the World Food Programme, Arif Husain, has said at a UN media conference that conflicts promote the most food crisis.
