Global emergency of rising hunger – GulfToday

Global emergency of rising hunger – GulfToday

David Beasley of UN World Food Programme told the UN Security Council on Thursday that the world is faced with the scourge of hunger after the pandemic, and it is also one of the after-effects of the pandemic, apart from wars in Yemen, Ukraine, Syria, droughts in places like Somalia, and economic crises arising from raging inflation in many countries like Lebanon and in many African countries. He described the situation as “global emergency of unprecedented magnitude” and said 345 million people all over the world are threatened with hunger, and 70 million people stare at starvation. Beasley delivered a stark message to the world body: “What was a wave of hunger is now a tsunami of hunger.” The Security Council was considering the issue of food crisis in areas in conflict zone. But Beasley and UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said that the arc of hunger spreads wider than the conflict zones in Ethiopia, northeastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen. Griffiths informed: “Famine will happen in Somalia. But sure it won’t be the only place either.” He included Afghanistan in the list of countries, which could fall prey to hunger. Yemen is most affected by the war in Ukraine