FAO/IFAD/WFP/Michael TeweldeIn 2019, Ethiopia experienced the fifth-worst food crisis of all the countries on earth. The world is not only facing “a global health pandemic but also a global humanitarian catastrophe”, the UN food relief agency chief told the Security Council on Tuesday via video link. WFP Chief warns of hunger pandemic as #COVID19 spreads. […]
Category: Food Insecurity
South Sudan famine threat: UN food security agency in ‘race against time’
WFP/Gabriela Vivacqua A woman and her family wade through a flooded plain to reach their home in Thaker, Unity state, South Sudan. The World Food Programme (WFP) is warning against potential famine in South Sudan as hunger deepens due to drought, floods and an uncertain political future. WFP fears more than 5.5 million people could be going hungry in early 2020, and the UN […]
One-third of Afghans need urgent humanitarian aid, millions suffer ‘acute food insecurity’
Over the last three months (August to October 2019), around one-third of the Afghan population required urgent humanitarian action, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Alert, released on Monday, which declares that some 10.23 million people are living in a state of “severe acute food insecurity”. The IPC, a coalition of […]
Alarmingly high’ number of children malnourished worldwide: UNICEF report
Across the globe, at least one-in-three children under-five are malnourished and not developing properly, UNICEF revealed on Tuesday, in its most comprehensive report on children, food and nutrition in 20 years. “An alarmingly high number of children are suffering the consequences of poor diets and a food system that is failing them,” the UN children’s agency (UNICEF) warned. […]
Attack on Saudi facilities risks dragging Yemen into ‘regional conflagration’: UN Envoy
Attacks against oil facilities in Saudi Arabia over the weekend, claimed by rebel fighters in Yemen, are a sign that the war-torn country could be drawn into even greater conflict, the top United Nations official there told the Security Council on Monday. Special Envoy Martin Griffiths said there is “no time to waste” in ending […]
North Koreans trapped in ‘vicious cycle of deprivation, corruption, repression’ and endemic bribery: UN human rights office
Bribery is the main way people in North Korea get food, healthcare, shelter and work, a new UN human rights office report said on Tuesday. Based on more than 200 first-hand accounts of escapees from the country, officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), the report asserts that the State-run public distribution […]