Including 4 Arab countries .. United Nations: famine threatens several countries in the world

MENA Observatory

The United Nations has revealed that four countries are on the verge of entering the famine phase in the coming months, stressing that this is mainly linked to the continuation of conflicts and armed conflicts in these countries.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Program said the four countries are Burkina Faso, South Sudan and northeastern Nigeria, in addition to Yemen, noting that some people, who live in these four regions, are facing a critical state of hunger.

The United Nations has also indicated that the risk of famine increases considerably with the difficulties of delivering humanitarian aid to those who deserve it in these countries, due to the intensification of armed clashes, stressing that what the world is witnessing in terms of crises, conflicts, natural disasters and epidemics increasing the number of hungry people in the world.

In the same context, the organization indicated that the threat of famine is not limited to the aforementioned countries, but that the threat of hunger also includes 16 other countries that suffer from acute food insecurity, namely Venezuela, Haiti, l ‘Ethiopia, Somalia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan. In addition to Sudan, Lebanon and Syria.