Up to 345 million people marching UN warns toward starvation
The U.N. food chief on Thursday warned that the world is facing “a global emergency of unprecedented magnitude” toward starvation with up to 345 million people marching and to starvation by the war in Ukraine 70 million pushed closer. David Beasley, executive director of the U.N. The World Food Program said that in 2020 the U.N. Security Council in the 82 countries 345 million people facing acute food insecurity where the agency operates is 2½ times the number of acutely food insecure people before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. He said from very acute malnutrition and are “knocking on famine’s door”, it is incredibly troubling that 50 million of those people are suffering in 45 countries. He said, pointing to rising conflict, the pandemic’s economic ripple effects, climate change, rising fuel prices and the war in Ukraine, “What was a wave of hunger is now a tsunami of hunger”. On Feb. 24, Beasley said, since Russia invaded its neighbour, soaring food, fuel and fertilizer...