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UNITED NATIONS: The UN food chief warned Thursday that the world is facing “a perfect storm on top of a perfect storm” and urged donors, particularly Gulf nations and billionaires, to give a few days of profits to tackle a crisis with the…

DAVOS: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for “maximum” sanctions against Russia during a virtual speech on the first day of the World Economic Forum gathering of corporate executives, government officials and other VIPs in…

The United Nation appealed Friday for access to Ukrainians trapped in war zones, saying those besieged were starving to death. The Rome-based World Food Programme (WFP), which has been operating in Ukraine since the start of the conflict,…

The U.N. food chief warned Tuesday the war in Ukraine has created “a catastrophe on top of a catastrophe” and will have a global impact “beyond anything we’ve seen since World War II” because many of the Ukrainian farmers who produce…

The United Nations’ World Food Programme has responded to Tesla founder Elon Musk’s ask for a plan to tackle world hunger with a US$6.6-billion pitch. On Monday, the executive director of the UN agency unveiled a plan on Twitter…

The wealth of various billionaires has risen significantly since the onset of the pandemic, while in many developing countries, people were pushed back into poverty The story so far: Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk challenged the World…

The Executive Director for the UN World Food Programme, David Beasley, recently claimed in an interview on CNN that “2% of Elon Musk’s wealth” will be enough to solve the world hunger problem. As per Bloomberg, Muskis the world’s richest…

KABUL: More than half the population of Afghanistan - a record 22.8 million people - will face acute food insecurity from November, a UN aid organisation said on Monday. This data regarding acute hunger was revealed in a new report issued…