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."
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.Ĭhina'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.Įven if this drought ends, we're talking about a global food crisis at least for another 12 months, Beasley said. Particularly since these are their neighbours, these are their brothers, their family. the Gulf states need to help, need to step up and do it now, Beasley said. With oil profits being so high right now record-breaking profits, billions of dollars every week. 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. Russia and Ukraine signed agreements with the UN 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.
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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The keenly awaited first aid ship from Ukraine is carrying 23,000 metric tons of grain, enough to feed 1.5 million people on full rations for a month, Beasley said. He called the situation facing the Horn of Africa a perfect storm on top of a perfect storm, a tsunami on top of a tsunami as the drought-prone region struggles to cope amid high food and fuel prices driven partly by the war in Ukraine. I think there's a high probability we'll have a declaration of famine in the coming weeks, Beasley said.
The World Food Program says 22 million people are hungry. Their bone-dry communities face yet another failed rainy season within weeks that could tip parts of the region, especially neighbouring Somalia, into famine. He sat under a thorn tree among local women who told the AP that the last time it rained was in 2019. But the planned shipment, one of several the UN agency that fights hunger is pursuing, is more than six times the amount of grain that the first WFP-arranged ship from Ukraine is now carrying toward people in the Horn of Africa at risk of starvation.īeasley spoke Friday from northern Kenya, which is deep in a drought that is withering the Horn of Africa region. The final destinations for the grain are not confirmed and discussions continue, David Beasley said. The United States is stepping up to buy about 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine in the next few weeks for an upcoming shipment of food aid from ports no longer blockaded by war, the World Food Program chief has told The Associated Press.
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