Why 20 Million People Are on Brink of Famine in a ‘World of Plenty’
22, 2017
UNITED NATIONS — In a world filled with excess food, 20 million people are on the
brink of famine, including 1.4 million children at imminent risk of death.
In South Sudan, 100,000 people are affected by famine in a part of the country
that is most troubled by the fighting between two warring armies, the United Nations announced Monday, with one million more on the brink of famine.
Guterres said that I want to make a personal appeal to the parties to conflict to abide by international humanitarian law
and allow aid workers access to reach people in desperate need,
It is declared after three specific criteria are met: when one in five households in a certain area face extreme food shortages; more than 30 percent of the population is acutely malnourished;
and at least two people for every 10,000 die each day.
More than seven million people need urgent food aid, according to the United Nations.
Nearly three million people there "cannot meet their daily food requirements," the United Nations says.
People have already died." Famine was last declared in Somalia in July 2011, after an estimated 260,000 people had died, mostly in a two-month period.
