A senior United Nations official
has warned about that the world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the
end of the second world war. More than 20 million people are fighting with starvation
and famine. The children will have serious problems of malnutrition and would
not be able to go to school.
UN and food organizations define famine as when more
than 30% of children under age 5 suffer from acute malnutrition and mortality
rates are two or more deaths per 10,000 people every day. The largest
humanitarian crisis is in Yemen, where two-thirds of the population need aid and
more than seven million people are hungry.
In Somalia, which O’Brien
also visited, more than half the population need humanitarian assistance and
protection. He warned that close to one million children under the age of five
would be acutely malnourished this year. In north-east Nigeria malnutrition is so
pronounced that some adults are too weak to walk and some communities have lost
all their toddlers.
The hunger
in the world is a issue that effects a lots of countries. People
who suffer chronic hunger don’t have the option of eating when they are hungry
and they do not get enough calories, essential nutrients, or both. They have
very serious problems to feed their children today and tomorrow. Hunger kills
more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined, and, for
this, is important that every It is
important that everyone knows the consequences of hunger to try to help people
who suffer from hunger.
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