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United Nations will provide $ 100 million in aid for seven countries (Representational)
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The United Nations said Tuesday that it is releasing $ 100 million in aid for seven countries including Ethiopia to help them avoid starvation due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Ethiopia, where fighting has broken out between the central government and the northern region of Tigray, will receive a fifth of this money.
The other beneficiaries will be Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen.
“No one should see a slide into famine as an unavoidable side effect of this pandemic,” said Mark Lowcock, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.
“If it happens it is because the world has allowed it to happen. Famine can be prevented. But we have to act in time to make a difference,” Lowcock said in a statement.
“Right now, more money for the relief operation is the fastest and most efficient way to support famine prevention efforts.”
On a planet where there is more than enough food for everyone, Lowcock wrote, “famines result in agonizing and humiliating deaths. They fuel conflict and war.”
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