WFP Chief seeks Millions from Donors for Food
UNITED
NATIONS: Even before the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), World Food
Programme (WFP) chief David Beasley was warning the world would face its worst
humanitarian crisis in 2020 since the Second World War.
That was due to wars in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere, locust swarms
in Africa, frequent natural disasters, and economic crises including in
Lebanon, Congo, Sudan and Ethiopia. Then came COVID-19 which quickly became a
pandemic, escalating the need for food — and UN Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres says it is still not under control.
Beasley, who caught COVID-19 in April, has spent the months since
he recovered reaching out to world leaders and visiting stricken countries with
a new warning: Millions of people are closer to starvation because of the
deadly combination of c...
