The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says the number of people on the brink of famine in 43 countries has risen to 45 million due to a severe hunger wave around the world.
According to the French news agency AFP, the World Food Program said on Monday that the estimate of 42 million people at the beginning of the year was mostly a lack of food security review, which now shows that another 3 million people in Afghanistan are facing famine. Is.
"Millions of people are staring into space," said David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Program. We have an increase in the number of hungry people due to conflicts, climate change and Cove 19.
"And the latest figures show that more than 45 million people are now on the brink of starvation," he said after a visit to Afghanistan, where the World Food Program is helping 23 million people. have been.'
He added: "Fuel prices are rising, food prices are rising, fertilizers are more expensive, and all this is creating new crises, such as those in Afghanistan and Yemen. And a long-term emergency like Syria.
The World Food Program says the global cost of famine relief is now 7 billion, up from 6.6 billion at the beginning of the year.
He warns that traditional forms of funding have grown exponentially.
Families facing severe food insecurity are being forced to make 'devastating choices', such as marrying children early, expelling them from school or feeding them locusts, wild leaves or cactus.
According to the World Food Program, "Media reports from Afghanistan, meanwhile, point to families who are reportedly being forced to sell their children in a desperate attempt to survive."
The UN agency says a severe drought in Afghanistan, coupled with the economic downturn, is bringing families to the brink of disaster, while an estimated 12.4 million people in Syria do not know where their next meal will come from.
Severe hunger is also on the rise in Ethiopia, Haiti, Somalia, Angola, Kenya and Burundi.
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