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UNITED NATIONS: United Nations aid chief Mark Lowcock said on Tuesday (November 17) that he would use $ 100 million from the world body’s emergency fund to help seven countries try to avoid conflict-fueled famine, spiraling economies, climate change and COVID-19. pandemic.
Some $ 30 million will be spent in Yemen, $ 15 million each in Afghanistan and northeastern Nigeria, $ 7 million each in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and $ 6 million in Burkina Faso. Lowcock said that $ 20 million had also been set aside in anticipation of a worsening situation in Ethiopia.
“The prospect of a return to a world where famines are commonplace would be heartbreaking and obscene in a world where there is more than enough food for everyone. Famines result in agonizing and humiliating deaths,” Lowcock said.
“Its impact on a country is devastating and long-lasting,” he said in a statement.
Almost $ 500 million has been paid to the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund in 2020. It is used to enable the world body to respond quickly to new humanitarian crises or underfunded emergencies without waiting for specific donations.
