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Ertharin Cousin, the Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, spoke to FRANCE 24 at the COP21 climate conference in Paris. She explained why reaching a deal at the summit is so important for the world's most vulnerable people.
To mark World Humanitarian Day, the deputy director of the World Food Programme in Burma, Guillaume Foliot, analyses the action taken by this UN agency. South Sudan, Syria, Iraq and the Central African Republic all currently require emergency intervention, but humanitarian workers are increasingly vulnerable on the ground.
The conflict has pushed the East African country to the brink of collapse, with urban areas in Khartoum and the adjacent city of Omdurman disintegrating into battlegrounds.
The Black Sea deal with Russia allowed Ukraine to export more of its grain in the past year. Australia and the EU produced more food than was expected too.
Experts have sounded the alarm that if ports around Odessa remain closed, shortages of grain, oil and other goods will trigger famine and migration crises the world over.
As the war in Ukraine continues and the food supply is destroyed, 45 per cent of Ukrainians are now worried about being able to find food.View on euronews
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