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COVID-19 fuels the threat of global famine The pandemic has exacerbated food insecurity around the world. The World Food Program is short of resources to alleviate hunger.
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Conflicts, climate change and now COVID-19 are the three C’s driving 270 million people to famine in the most impoverished countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Central and Latin America. Officials at the World Food Program (WFP), the hunger relief arm of the United Nations that feeds about a hundred million people each year in some 88 countries, warned that they are running out of resources to meet the demand for staple foods and thus prevent people dying from starvation.
Yemen: Famine around the corner, says World Food Programme
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High-level donor conference convened by UN hears millions are at risk of starvation without immediate intervention
By Annabel Symington and Peyvand Khorsandi
People in Yemen face famine unless the world takes immediate action, the World Food Programme (WFP) will warn today.
Nearly 50,000 people in Yemen are already living in famine-like conditions with 5 million just a step away.
David Beasley, WFP’s Executive Director, will press home the organization’s fears for the country at a
The UN estimates nearly 250,000 people have died during Yemen’s six-year war, including more than 131,000 people from the indirect consequences of conflict, such as lack of food, health services and infrastructure
Volunteers teach people living in settlements about COVID-19.
This photo was taken in Sana’a, Yemen. At a Security Council briefing yesterday UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator said people in Yemen are more worried about hunger than the COVID-19 pandemic.
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UNITED NATIONS, Feb 19 2021 (IPS) - Yemen is heading towards the worst famine the world has seen in decades, the United Nations Security Council was warned in a briefing yesterday.
“Across Yemen, more than 16 million people are going hungry – including 5 million who are just one step away from famine,” Mark Lowcock, the UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said during the briefing. The country has a population of just over 29 million.
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