The UN World Food Program is sounding the alarm, several million people find themselves in a situation of food insecurity in the world, due to the consequences of Covid-19, the war in Ukraine or political instability. Arif Husain, an economist at the WFP, calls on the leaders of the G7 to take more action.
Currently, our figures show that there are up to 345 million people in a food emergency or war situation. Before the Covid, this figure was only 135 million. Of those 345 million, 50 million people are one step away from starvation, not in one, not two, but in 45 countries. What we must do above all is to save their lives, whether in Yemen, in South Sudan, in Chad, in the northeast of Nigeria, in Afghanistan, and the list goes on and on.
The agency called for the immediate opening of all Black Sea ports and called on the G7 to guarantee the rapid and safe delivery of grain, oil and food. Germany will host the annual G7 summit in Bavaria next week, Africanews reads.
In a recent report, the WFP said it urgently needed $426 million over the next six months to avert famine in South Sudan, where more than two-thirds of the population need humanitarian assistance.
Ration des stocks
In West Africa – particularly in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger – the WFP has significantly reduced rations. Disruptions are looming in Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Congo, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, according to WFP executive director David Beasley.
“We are forced to take the heartbreaking decision to reduce food rations for refugees who depend on us for their survival,” he added.
