France24 – April 22, 2020
Women carry sacks of food airdropped by the World Food Programme and distributed by the NGO Oxfam in Padding, near Lankien, Jonglei, South Sudan in 2017. Click to enlarge.
The head of the U.N. food agency warned Tuesday that, as the world is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, it is also “on the brink of a hunger pandemic” that could lead to “multiple famines of biblical proportions” within a few months if immediate action isn’t taken.
World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley told the U.N. Security Council that even before COVID-19 became an issue, he was telling world leaders that “2020 would be facing the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.” That’s because of wars in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere, locust swarms in Africa, frequent natural disasters and economic crises including in Lebanon, Congo, Sudan and Ethiopia, he said.
Beasley said today 821 million people go to bed hungry every night all over the world, a further 135 million people are facing “crisis levels of hunger or worse,” and a new World Food Program analysis shows that as a result of COVID-19 an additional 130 million people “could be pushed to the brink of starvation by the end of 2020.”
He said in the video briefing that WFP is providing food to nearly 100 million people on any given day, including “about 30 million people who literally depend on us to stay alive.”
Beasley, who is recovering from COVID-19, said if those 30 million people can’t be reached, “our analysis shows that 300,000 people could starve to death every single day over a three-month period” — and that doesn’t include increased starvation due to the coronavirus.
“In a worst-case scenario, we could be looking at famine in about three dozen countries, and in fact, in 10 of these countries we already have more than one million people per country who are on the verge of starvation,” he said.
According to WFP, the 10 countries with the worst food crises in 2019 were Yemen, Congo, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Syria, Sudan, Nigeria and Haiti.
Beasley said in many countries the food crisis is the result of conflict.
But he said he raised the prospect of “a hunger pandemic” because “there is also a real danger that more people could potentially die from the economic impact of COVID-19 than from the virus itself.”
The WFP chief said lockdowns and economic recession are expected to lead to major income losses for the working poor.
He pointed to a sharp drop in overseas remittances that will hurt countries such as Haiti, Nepal and Somalia; a loss of tourism revenue which, for example, will damage Ethiopia where it accounts for 47 percent of total exports; and the collapse of oil prices which will have a significant impact in lower-income countries like South Sudan where oil accounts for almost 99 percent of total exports.
As the U.N.’s logistics backbone, Beasley said WFP has played a major role in tackling COVID-19 by delivering millions of pieces of protective equipment, testing kits and face masks to 78 countries on behalf of the World Health Organization and by running humanitarian air services to get doctors, nurses and humanitarian staff into countries that need help.
He urged greater humanitarian access, coordinated action to deliver aid, an end to trade disruptions, and accelerated and increased funding including $350 million to set up a network of logistics hubs and transport systems to keep supply chains running worldwide.
“The truth is, we do not have time on our side, so let’s act wisely — and let’s act fast,” Beasley said. “I do believe that with our expertise and partnerships, we can bring together the teams and the programs necessary to make certain the COVID-19 pandemic does not become a humanitarian and food crisis catastrophe.”
The good-hearted ordinary people of the USA and Canada will supply life-saving grain. That is if the DC crowd don’t find some way to stop it, some excuse for war rather than peac, for famine rather than plenty.
Sounds like he was more concerned with the medical rather than the food. Sounds like a control of trade.
John Kirby: Russia is by far and away, the breadbasket of the world. It isn’t a food problem, it is a designed logistical problem. Here in the UK, the government has stopped UK supermarkets from stocking flour, bread flour, and yeast. I am going to be unpatriotic again, for all the naked Union Jack wrapped nut jobs… they are softening up the patriotic thicko sheeple.
“UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres kicked off a series of speeches by world leaders at the 2019 UN General Assembly by warning there is a potential “Great Fracture” where the world would be divided between the two largest economies—the United States and China. Gutteres also said he supports efforts to convene a third summit between the U.S. and North Korea and called for an increase in diplomacy as a means to promote peace around the world.”
Just a hot steamy pile of bullshit from the General in charge of general bullshit!
WATCH: UN Secretary-General Guterres’s full speech to the United Nations General
Assembly, if you can stomach this lying sack of vomit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DKoOwPk-Cw
Mister Jeff Berwick is handed The Sermon of The Day award by Quentin Quarantino, the founder and President of “Quarantine The Bums on TV”.
Quarantine expert, Quentin Quarantino, has appointed the Honorable Minister of Justice & Punishment, Sir Umbra Bellator, as Special Prosecutor for The People’s Republic of The Internet.
Quarantino has ordered the banksters and their bought off liars, actors and idiots in politics and mainstream I mean Shitstream Media to pack their suitcases and pack a lunch because they are soon to be escorted way on down to Concentration Camp where they’ll have all the time in the world to CONCENTRATE on The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing BUT The Truth.
All their wealth and resources are to be redistributed to the people of the world, i.e. those who have been entrapped by a pack of lying thieves masquerading as legitimate authorities thanks to their ownership and absolute control of the Mainstream I mean Shitstream Media.
Jeff Berwick, The Dollar Vigilante, is more than just a dollar vigilante. He stands on guard for theeeeeeeeeee.
UN WARNS OF FAMINES OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS DUE TO LOCKDOWN CAUSED BY COVID PLANDEMIC
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fear of scumdemic is high in africa luck of information’s and its tight control censorship. for dectator leaders ‘corona’ covid is like a wet dream , the torture champer is on street supported by un. lockdown with no means of survival . street sellers biten and fined, thier food item collected and burned .
now un zionists servants prepare/leading us the famine that surely followed is caused by pandemics. we need to vaccinate 7b. because your weak and destroyed you could not resist us. what kind of evil we’re witnessing
@ Voltman Plutonymus Rex
I am honored and humbled, good sir, at my appointment to the position of Minister of Justice & Punishment. I swear to perform and execute my duties faithfully, honorably, and quite vigorously. And speaking of execute, I swear there will be a lot of that going on as well, publicly and in a most humiliating fashion, for the demonic shit-stains on the fabric of humanity who have been masquerading as humans, such as, but not limited to, those “banksters and their bought off liars, actors and idiots in politics”, the controlled brainwashing media, scorched-earth corporatists, and other assorted soul-less degenerates.
There will be many others “invited” to the camp, kind of like Bohemian Grove but with more flair, more floggings, more pain, more pig shit. There will be infamous special guests such as Bill Gates, George Soros, Dov Zakheim, Sheldon Adelson, Lucky Larry Silverstein, Tony Blair, Jonathan Greenblatt, Mark Zuckerberg, Dick Cheney, oh the list goes on and on and on. And it will certainly be like a giant family reunion for the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, as their whole extended clans will be there. I can already sense the sweet aroma of justice…
Umbra Bellator:
“There will be many others “invited” to the camp, kind of like Bohemian Grove but with more flair, more floggings, more pain, more pig shit. There will be infamous special guests such as Bill Gates, George Soros, Dov Zakheim, Sheldon Adelson, Lucky Larry Silverstein, Tony Blair, Jonathan Greenblatt, Mark Zuckerberg, Dick Cheney, oh the list goes on and on and on. And it will certainly be like a giant family reunion for the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, as their whole extended clans will be there. I can already sense the sweet aroma of justice…”
Hot diggity Umbra! That’s what I call a swinging party…
Sound like a Big Bozo Bonanza Extravaganza!!!
I’ll have to hire people to make thousands of my special cow pattie cream pies!
They’ll be swinging from the lamp posts! Yippie yie yo! Cow Pattie!!!
Swinging in the rain
They’re swinging in the rain
What a glorious feeling
I’m happy again
All the gold and silver they hold
Won’t keep ’em from the gallows pole
The Hangman with his nice thick rope
Is here to give us all some hope
See the rotten greedy dope
Swing at the end of his rope
There’s no appeal to which to cling
There is no deal that he can swing
Swingin’ on the gallows pole
Led Zeppelin – Gallows Pole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPilAKyWLCQ