In order to address the alarming rate of food insecurity in the war-torn northeast of Nigeria, the United Nations humanitarian organization says it is struggling to raise enough funds. According to officials, the growing number of global crises is making aid-dependent countries compete for limited resources
The forecasts make for dismal reading. The coronavirus has wreaked havoc across the globe but one of the most alarming consequences of the potentially deadly pathogen will be a likely dramatic increase in poverty. According to major charities, banks and international agencies,as many as 420 million more people will slip into poverty this year — …
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World Food Day is marked on Wednesday (16 Oct). WFP said, for the most part, the causes of hunger remain the same – conflict, the climate crisis and economic marginalization
Climate change it says is worsening the ability of people to get enough to eat. It says hunger is growing as crops and livelihoods in impoverished countries are wiped out by extreme flooding and drought
Ironically, the authorities claims, that deaths did not occur from hunger, flies in the face of the village head’s admission