World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize for hunger fight The World Food Program has won the Nobel Peace Prize for working to prevent the use of hunger as “a weapon of war and conflict.”NIAMEY, Niger -- The World Food Program won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting hunger and seeking to end its use as "a weapon of war and conflict” at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has driven millions more people to the brink of starvation. “The World Food Program works at the intersection of those two problems (and) it's going to face an increasing workload in the coming years." Some, however, noted that the World Food Program’s top donors are also major food exporters and often involved in the sale of arms to conflict zones where the agency works, from Afghanistan to Yemen. “This Nobel Prize is important to celebrate multilateral cooperation, to show solidarity between nations,” said Frederic Mousseau, policy director at The Oakland Institute, a progressive think tank based in California. The Nobel Memorial Prize for economics, which was only established in 1968, will be awarded Monday.

Source: ABC News October 09, 2020 06:20 UTC