United Nations: The head of the World Food Program says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. 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." “We were able to avert it in 2020 ... because the world leaders responded with money, stimulus packages, deferral of debt," he said. “I'm telling them you're not going to have enough money to fund all the projects you historically fund," he said. “There's about three dozen countries that could possibly enter the famine conditions if we don't have the money we need," Beasley said. But he said there's already been USD 17 billion of economic stimulus this year “and we're not going to have that globally."

Source: Mint November 15, 2020 00:33 UTC