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3.4 mn people in Myanmar will suffer from hunger within 6 months, warns Wo
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], April 23 (ANI): Within the next six months, 3.4 million people will go hungry, over and above the 2.8 million people considered to be food insecure in Myanmar before the military takeover, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).
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12.4 million people in Syria face food insecurity in 2021
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], February 18 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Food Program (WFP) said in a press release on Thursday that an additional 4.5 million Syrians have become food insecure over the past year, bringing the total number of people on the brink of hunger to a record 12.4 million.
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Southern Africa needs more aid as record 45 mn people face severe hunger:
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [USA], Nov 1 (Sputnik/ANI): The international community should increase support for 16 countries in southern Africa, where a record 45 million people will be severely food insecure in the next six months, the UN World Food Programme (UNWFP) said on Thursday.
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43% of N Korea's population food insecure: UN
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Pyongyang [DPR Korea], Feb 13 (ANI): A United Nations report, on Wednesday, revealed that around 43 per cent of North Korea's population is "food insecure", with one out of five children facing "chronic malnutrition".
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How food crises are haunting globe
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr. 1 (ANI): According to a recent global report on food crises, the number of people deemed "severely food insecure" or vulnerable to starvation grew from 80 million in 2015 to 108 million in 2016.
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