Heartbreaking and preventable
It's devastating that we see these warnings year after year, yet funding is actually dropping when needs have doubled. How can we claim to be a global community when we let politics and funding cuts dictate who eats?
Millions in Arab, Muslim countries face hunger crisis: UN
LONDON: Acute food insecurity is expected to worsen for millions of people across an array of Arab and Muslim countries, a new report by two UN bodies has warned. The Hunger Hotspots report by the World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization highlighted Palestine, Yemen and Sudan as among the most at-risk countries, where elevated levels of starvation and death will likely occur. Conflict, economic shocks, climate and natural disasters represent the central drivers of food insecurity worldwide, the report found.