On Monday, June 6, 2022, the United Nations called for the need to take urgent humanitarian measures in 20 countries that it considered a “hot spot for hunger” in the world, including 5 Arab countries, namely Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia and Lebanon.
This came in a joint report issued by the World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Deterioration in food security in the Arab world
While the report warned of “the possibility that food insecurity in the twenty countries will deteriorate during the next three months, i.e. between June and September 2022.”
death danger
He also revealed that “750,000 men, women and children are currently facing starvation and death in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and South Sudan.”
The report added: “Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan, Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan remain on high alert, which is a state of catastrophic conditions, which means that there are segments of the population facing catastrophic food insecurity or at risk of deteriorating into catastrophic conditions.”
Serious concern about food in Syria
In a related context, the report said: “Syria, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti and the Sahel region remain countries of grave concern.”
As the World Food Program and the FAO warned in the report, “The conflict in Ukraine is exacerbating what is already a year of catastrophic hunger… unleashing the ensuing wave of hunger spreading all over the world and transforming a series of terrible hunger crises.” into a global food crisis that the world cannot afford.”
The report included Sri Lanka, West African coastal countries (Benin, Guinea and Cape Verde), Ukraine and Zimbabwe to the rest of the hotspot countries: Angola, Lebanon, Madagascar and Mozambique.
climate shocks
The report concluded that, “Besides conflict, climate shocks will continue to cause acute hunger in the forecast period from June to September 2022, as the world enters a new normal, in which recurrent droughts, floods and hurricanes devastate agriculture, increasing displacement and driving Millions to the brink in these countries.”
Delayed sale of millions of tons of grain
This comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that up to 75 million tons of grain could be stuck in Ukraine by the fall of this year, and that Kyiv wanted anti-ship weapons that could ensure the safe passage of its exports.
Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv that Ukraine was discussing with Britain and Turkey the idea of the navy of a third country ensuring the passage of Ukrainian grain exports through the Russian-dominated Black Sea. He added that Ukrainian weapons will be the strongest guarantee of the safe passage of its exports.
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