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The head of the World Food Program has stated that 70 million people may die of ...

"Tsunes of Famine": The war in Ukraine can kill millions of people in 82 countries - the UN

The head of the World Food Program has stated that 70 million people may die of starvation. Residents of Africa are particularly dangerous. The UN Food Head, David Bizley, warned that the world has encountered an "global emergency of unprecedented scale", which is written by Independent. According to him, 345 million people in 82 countries go to starvation, and 70 million are approaching starvation precisely because of the war in Ukraine.

"What was a wave of famine has now turned into a tsunam of famine," he said. According to Bizle, since on February 24, Russia has fallen into Ukraine, food and fertilizer food and fertilizer brought 70 million people to starvation. The material states that, despite the July Agreement, which allows the shipment of Ukrainian grain from three Black Sea ports, in 2023 the crisis of food prices can develop into the availability crisis of foodstuff South Sudan and Yemen.

In addition, the head of the UN Humanitarian Organization Martin Griffiths warned of a hungry crisis in Somalia and Afghanistan. "We are on the verge again, even worse, and we have to do everything in our power," Bizley said. He stated that the war in Ukraine ignites inflation in Yemen, which is 90% dependent on food imports.

And South Sudan faces "the highest level of acute famine from the moment of independence in 2011" from Sudan According to Griffiths, in the Tigray, Aphra and Amhara regions in northern Ethiopia, more than 13 million people need saving food. Earlier, the UN has already stated that 345 million people were faced with a lack of food. The World Food Program report states that there are four main reasons that have caused a serious food crisis in the world.