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The UN humanitarian agencies are warning that 18 million people in Africa’s Sahel region face severe hunger in the next three months due to a combination of insecurity, the coronavirus pandemic, climate induced shocks and record-high food prices in the region. UNTV CH

Secretary-General António Guterres told Security Council members that when they “fail to reach consensus, hungry people pay a high price.” UNIFEED

Secretary-General, António Guterres, said, “there is no effective solution” to the current global food crisis “without reintegrating Ukraine’s food production, as well as the food and fertilizer produced by Russia and Belarus, into world markets -- despite the war.” UNIFEED

Nearly 20 million people going hungry in Afghanistan, warns the UN World Food Programme. UNTV CH

Russia and Ukraine combined account for 30 percent of the global wheat exports and 20 percent of global maize exports. Any disruption in production or supply could drive prices up, affecting millions of vulnerable families, especially in hunger hotspots. WFP

Michael Dunford, World Food Program's Regional Director for East Africa said that there is a real risk of famine due to the drought in the Horn of Africa, adding that funding gap is forcing the Programme to make very tough choices – “taking from the hungry to feed the starving.” UNIFEED

Desperately needed rains across the Horn of Africa have so far failed to materialise, almost a month into the current rainy season, and if these conditions continue, along with stagnant and even decreasing humanitarian aid, the number of hungry people due to drought could spiral from the currently estimated 14 million to 20 million through 2022, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned. WFP

Located in the southern Federal Member State of Jubaland, Dollow has been hard hit by Somalia’s current wave of drought. The UN has been working with district authorities and humanitarian partners to help those in need. UNSOM

The threat of famine is very real in Somalia and South Sudan and urgent action is needed now to avoid a catastrophe; UN humanitarians warned. UNTV CH

Efforts to help thousands of desperate residents flee the embattled Ukrainian city of Mariupol continued on Friday, as humanitarians warned that there is “no Plan B,” after weeks of constant shelling since the Russian invasion on 24 February. UNTV CH