Friday, 12 March 2021, 7:09 pm
Conflict drives hunger, and when that turns to
famine, that then drives conflict, the UN chief told the
Security Council on Thursday, adding that “if you don’t
feed people, you feed conflict”.
“When a
country or region is gripped by conflict and hunger, they
become mutually reinforcing…[and] cannot be resolved
separately”, Secretary-General António
Guterres said via videoconference to the meeting which
focused on how conflict and food security are
interlinked.
And when hunger meets inequality, climate
shocks, sectarian and ethnic tensions, together with
grievances over resources, they then “spark and drive
conflict”.
At the same time, conflict forces people