BBC: Coronavirus: World risks 'biblical' famines due to pandemic - UN
The world is at risk of widespread famines "of biblical proportions" caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the UN has warned.
David Beasley, head of the World Food Programme (WFP), said urgent action was needed to avoid a catastrophe.
A report estimates that the number suffering from hunger could go from 135 million to more than 250 million.
Those most at risk are in 10 countries affected by conflict, economic crisis and climate change, the WFP says.
The fourth annual Global Report on Food Crises highlights Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Nigeria and Haiti.
In South Sudan, 61% of the population was affected by food crisis last year, the report says.
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WNU Editor: An estimated three dozen countries are at high risk, affecting a quarter of a billion people .... UN warns of 'biblical' famines of a quarter of a billion people as coronavirus threatens to leave three dozen nations starving (Daily Mail).
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... And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. ...
Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath has passed by.
– Isaiah 26:20
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