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arlier this month on March 10, the United Nations humanitarian co-ordinator, Stephen O’Brien told the Security CouncilCo that the world is facing the biggest humanitarianhu crisis since 1945. In his address O’BrienO’ said: “We stand at a critical point in history.hi Already at the beginning of the year wew are facing the largest humanitarian crisis sincesin the creation of the United Nations. Now, more than 20 million people across four countries face starvation and famine. Without collective and co-ordinated global efforts, people will simply starve to death. Many more will suffer and die from disease.” He urged an immediate injection of funds for Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and northeast Nigeria plus safe and unimpeded access for humanitarian aid “to avert a catastrophe”. “To be precise, we need $4.4 billion by July,” O’Brien said. countries has been caused by collapsing economies, conflict and catastrophic drought that has ruined crops and killed millions of livestock. Yemen is now classified as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster because of its own long-running civil war and the war’s impact on locals getting access to food supplies. “Two-thirds of the population, 18.8 million people, need assistance and more than 7 million are hungry and do not know where their next meal will come from,” O’Brien said. “That is 3 million people more than in January. As fighting continues and escalates, displacement increases. With health facilities destroyed and damaged, diseases are sweeping through the country.” The Australian Government recently committed an additional $20m to Somalia and South Sudan for food and life-saving support.

See Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) and list of aid agencies: https://acfid.asn.au/content/2017-east-africa-food-crisis