The United Nations has raised about a third of its goal, and there’s little reason to believe that much more is coming. The funding is for four countries facing massive hunger crises: South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen. In South Sudan, the United Nations says that 2,800 people are fleeing worsening violence and looming famine every day. Raising funds for hunger crises, particularly in Africa, is never easy. Even the seeds that the FAO provided last month, they have eaten them,” José Graziano da Silva, director general of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, said Tuesday.

Source: Washington Post June 03, 2017 09:00 UTC