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Medecins Sans Frontieres gains access to quake zone in Syria
MSF said a convoy of 14 of its trucks had entered northwestern Syria to assist in earthquake rescue operations.
Mon Feb 20 2023
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UN warns 2021 shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe
2021 is literally going to be catastrophic based on what we're seeing at this stage of the game.
Sat Dec 05 2020
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Nobel UN food agency warns 2021 will be worse than 2020
The head of the World Food Program says that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars "we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021."
Sun Nov 15 2020
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World Food Programme: Five things to know
Latin America has seen an almost three-fold rise in the numbers of people requiring food assistance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fri Oct 09 2020
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UN food chief urges rich to help keep millions from starving
The WFP and its partners were going all out to reach as many as 138 million people this year, the biggest scale-up in our history.
Fri Sep 18 2020
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World on brink of 'hunger pandemic' - WFP chief
According to experts, 821 million people go to bed hungry and a newly-published Global Report on Food Crisis indicated an additional 135 million are facing crisis levels of hunger or worse.
Wed Apr 22 2020