WORLD FAMINE SITUATION WORSENS
In views running counter to President Donald Trump’s America First message, former Republican governor David Beasley has pledged to use his Washington connections to defend the cash-strapped World Food Programme, which faces bleak figures from around the globe
600,000
Number of children seriously at risk of death
20M
Number of people who don’t know where their next meal will come from
$9B
Amount WFP needs in donations this year
$2B
Donations WFP has received so far this year
$990M
Amount US lawmakers have allocated as additional famine relief
And if we don’t receive the funding we need, then we have to make some very hard decisions. We literally have to determine who lives and who dies, and that’s not a decision any of us want to make David Beasley new executive director of WFP