United Nations warns of hunger in these countries

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Program have warned that “Burkina Faso, South Sudan, northeastern Nigeria and Yemen are at risk of starvation.”

A report on the two aforementioned organizations stated that “some people living in these four regions face a critical state of hunger and that escalating conflicts and increasing difficulties in obtaining humanitarian aid can lead to the risk of famine.”

The report noted, “a combination of several factors, including” conflicts, economic deterioration, the climatic situation and the Crown epidemic, which are pushing the population to sink further into the emergency phase of food insecurity ” .

The report emphasized that “these four regions are far from being isolated cases, as the world map shows that acute food insecurity rates have reached new heights in the world.”

The report added that “16 countries are threatened by increased levels of acute hunger.” These countries are Venezuela, Haiti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, and Afghanistan.