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UN: More than 280 million people faced acute hunger in 2023

2024-04-26 10:48:22Biznes SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

UN: More than 280 million people faced acute hunger in 2023

More than 281 million people in 59 countries experienced high levels of food insecurity, requiring emergency assistance, according to a UN report. The Global Food Crisis Report released on Wednesday found that war-torn Gaza was the territory with the highest number of people facing famine.

There were 24 million more people facing acute food insecurity than in 2022, the report said. This was due to the sharp deterioration in food security, especially in the Gaza Strip and Sudan.

Máximo Torero, chief economist for the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, said 705,000 people in five countries are at the highest level on a scale of hunger determined by international experts.

This was the highest number since the global report began in 2016 and quadrupled the number that year. Over 80 percent of those facing imminent starvation were in Gaza, Torero said. South Sudan, Burkina Faso, Somalia and Mali each host thousands of people facing catastrophic famine.

Guterres highlighted the conflict in the Gaza Strip, as the enclave holds the largest number of people facing catastrophic hunger. There is also the year-long conflict in Sudan, which has created the world's largest internal displacement crisis "with cruel impacts on hunger and nutrition", he added.

According to the report, more than 36 million people in 39 countries and territories are facing an acute hunger emergency, one step below Stage 4 hunger, with more than a third in Sudan and Afghanistan. That's an increase of one million people from 2022, the report said.

Arif Husain, chief economist of the UN World Food Programme, said that every year since 2016, the number of people with acute food insecurity has increased and they are now more than double the numbers before the COVID-19 pandemic. While the report looks at 59 countries, he said the objective is to get data from 73 countries where there are people who are extremely food insecure.

The report is the flagship publication of the Food Security Information Network and is based on a collaboration of 16 partners, including UN agencies, regional and multinational bodies, the European Union, the US Agency for International Development, technical organizations and others.


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