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Millions on the brink of starvation as the pandemic exacerbates world hunger

World Oct 09

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Leader of Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Programme on global starvation crisis

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the United Nations’ World Food Programme for its efforts to fight global hunger, especially during the pandemic, which has brought millions more people to the brink of starvation. The organization’s executive director,…

World Jul 21

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How the pandemic is making a global food crisis worse

As the coronavirus pandemic tears across the globe, the toll exacted in lives lost and ruined grows by the day. But for those already in need, especially the hungry and the starving, COVID-19 is accelerating their nightmares. David Beasley, executive…

World Apr 22

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Pandemic could mean 260 million people worldwide ‘marching toward starvation’

The United Nations World Food Program warned this week that as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the number of people facing food crisis could double -- to 260 million worldwide. David Beasley, the organization’s executive director, joins Judy…

World Jun 14

Internally displaced women carry relief food from a distribution by the World Food Programme in the Sudd Swamp near the town of Nyal, in South Sudan August 19, 2018. Picture taken August 19, 2018. Photo by Andreea Campeanu/Reuters
UN report: Record number of South Sudanese face critical lack of food

Almost two million people are near starvation nine months after a peace deal ended a five-year civil war in South Sudan.

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