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The number of people threatened by hunger worldwide has increased significantly this year, according to the UN. Whereas at the beginning of the year 42 million people were counted as being threatened by hunger, the figure has now risen to 45 million, according to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in Rome.
The additional people at risk of hunger were registered mainly in Afghanistan, the WFP added. “Tens of millions of people are staring into the abyss. Conflict, climate change and Covid-19 are causing the number of hungry people to skyrocket,” said WFP Executive Director David Beasley.
“The latest surveys show that more than 45 million people are on the brink of starvation.” In crisis states such as Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan, he said, prices for fuel, for food and for fertilizer were rising, making the situation ever worse. In Syria alone, he said, 12.4 million people are in the situation of not knowing where they will get their next meal.
- source: orf.at/picture: pixabay.com
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