0905 GMT March 07, 2021
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Hunger is on the rise in southern Madagascar due to consecutive years of drought, affecting half the region’s population, or 1.5 million people, and forcing most families to eat insects, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported.
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The head of the World Food Programme (WFP) said the Nobel Peace Prize has given the UN agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars “we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021.”
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received from the government of Japan the largest ever single contribution to its operations in Iran. WFP will use the S$7 million grant for its COVID-19 response to support Iranian health workers and strengthen the resilience of the refugee community in Iran.
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At the dawn of the new decade, a new World Food Programme (WFP) forecast of global hunger hotspots revealed that escalating hunger will challenge sub-Saharan Africa in the first half of 2020.
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