“Don’t forget us,” resident Hasan Mohamud told Beasley. More and more thousands of children are malnourished. Millions of livestock, the source of families’ wealth and nutrition, have died in the drought. Some of the world’s poorest people without enough food are in northern Kenya, where animal carcasses are slowly stripped to the bone beneath an ungenerous sky. “But in terms of the poorest of the poor, it’s gonna take several years to come out of this.” “Even if this drought ends, we’re talking about a global food crisis at least for another 12 months,” Beasley said. “China’s the second-largest economy in the world, and we get diddly-squat from China,” or very little, he added.ĭespite grain leaving Ukraine and hopes rising of global markets beginning to stabilize, the world’s most vulnerable people face a long, difficult recovery, the WFP chief said. He asserted the World Food Program could save “millions of lives” with just one day of Gulf countries’ oil profits.Ĭhina needs to help as well, Beasley said. Particularly since these are their neighbors, these are their brothers, their family.” “With oil profits being so high right now - record-breaking profits, billions of dollars every week - … the Gulf states need to help, need to step up and do it now,” Beasley said. He warned that richer countries must do much more to keep grain and other assistance flowing to the hungriest parts of the world, and he named names. and the Turkish government last month to enable exports of Ukrainian grain for the first time since Russia’s invasion in February.īut the slow reopening of Ukraine‘s ports and the cautious movement of cargo ships across the mined Black Sea won’t solve the global food security crisis, Beasley said. Russia and Ukraine signed agreements with the U.N. Ukraine was the source of half the grain that WFP bought last year to feed 130 million hungry people.
26 or 27, and the wheat is supposed to be shipped overland to northern Ethiopia, where millions of people in the Tigray, Afar and Amhara regions have faced not only drought but deadly conflict. It is expected to dock in Djibouti on Aug.
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