Hunger levels soar to a five-year high in world’s most poor countries
Women sit with their rations after receiving relief food at an IDP camp in northern Somalia in 2012. In East Africa, 32.9 million people face acute food shortage. PHOTO | AFP
The number of food insecure people in the world’s poor nations shot to a five-year high in 2020 with millions facing starvation, according to a World Food Programme released this week.
Majority of the 155 million affected are spread across 55 countries around the world, among them more than 15.8 million children of the age less than five, suffering from wasting.
