World Food Program: Famine Threatens 41 Million around Planet

The World Food Program (WFP) warns that more than 41 million people across the planet until the end of the current month.

The WFP has issued a statement that indicated that 34 million people were registered people at the beginning of the standing year.

This means that above 7 seven million were added to the famished people in various parts of the globe according to Russia Today, Arabic-spoken Russian website news.

The WFP stressed that without immediate food aids the famished people may tether on the brink of real starvation.

The program that based in Geneva, Switzerland, revealed over a report that famine in the world related to change climate and the devastating fallouts of the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19).

The pandemic caused millions of people couldn't get regular food supplies, especially in underdeveloped countries.

Experts estimate that about 270 million people in the world are suffering now from losing food security or facing high dangers in 2021.

The WFP revealed that it needs $ 5 billion throughout the current year in order to avoid famine and supply urgent food needs of the most endangered people.

That sum represents only a third of the required amount to fund food supplies during the next period.

However, last March Thomson Ferry, a spokesman for the World Food Program, affiliated with the United Nations (UN) said that lack of funding has forced the international organization to reduce food rations distributed in Somalia by 50% since February this year.

The organization warned of expectations that the food security situation there will worsen due to climate shocks, economic disruptions, civil war, and the disappearance of a strong central government.

Ferry confirmed at a press conference held in Geneva, Switzerland, today, Friday, that the UN program may be forced to make further cuts as early as next June 2021 unless sustainable funding is secured.

The spokesman mentioned that an estimated 5.9 million people – nearly half of the population – in Somalia need immediate humanitarian assistance with the food program, which provides food aid to 1.3 million people.

The international official noted that the organization urgently needs $ 172 million to continue its operations in the country at the levels. Current for the next six months.

The UN spokesperson indicated that the worsening deterioration of food security in Somalia is due to several factors, including the continuous invasion of desert locusts, the economic effects of the Corona epidemic, frequent climate shocks, including droughts and floods, and below-average expectations for precipitation, warning that the lack of funding leads to exposing Vital risk feeding programs.

He added that with the current funding projections, the World Food Program will be able to continue malnutrition prevention and treatment programs until June only, which may undermine previous gains, including a 2% reduction in the malnutrition rate last year.

Ferry stressed that without the program’s assistance, 840,000 children in Somalia are expected to suffer from moderate acute malnutrition and about 143,000 from severe acute malnutrition, while about 51,000 children will be at risk of death in the country.