UN warns up to 345 million people marching toward starvation

By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. food chief is warning that the world faces “a global emergency of unprecedented magnitude,” with up to 345 million people marching toward starvation — and 70 million pushed closer to starvation by the war in Ukraine. The executive director of the U.N. World Food Program told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that it’s also incredibly troubling that 50 million people heading toward starvation in 45 countries are suffering from very acute malnutrition and are “knocking on famine’s door.” He warns that “what was a wave of hunger is now a tsunami of hunger.”