TANZANIA – The World Food Program chief warned Thursday that millions of people are closer to starvation because of the deadly combination of conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic and he urged donor nations and billionaires to help feed them and ensure their survival.
The U.N. program's chief David Beasley told the U.N. Security Council that the response to his warning five months ago of a potential “hunger pandemic” had averted famine and kept people alive but the work wasn't done.The WFP and its partners were going all out to reach as many as 138 million people this year — “the biggest scale-up in our history,” he said.But more was needed to help “the 270 million people marching toward the brink of starvation.” Already, 30.