FILE – In this Sept. 21, 2018 file photo, men deliver U.N. World Food Program (WFP) aid in Aslam, Hajjah, Yemen. The World Food Program on Friday, Oct. 9, 2020 won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the globe. (AP Photo/Hammadi Issa, File)The United Nations World Food Programme has won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity in regions of conflict and hardship around the globe. Expand Close The World Food Programme HQ in Rome (Gregorio Borgia/AP) AP/PA Images / FacebookTwitterEmailWhatsapp The World Food Programme HQ in Rome (Gregorio Borgia/AP)“In 2019, 135 million people suffered from acute hunger, the highest number in many years,” it said. – On Monday, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize for physiology and medicine to scientists who discovered the liver-ravaging hepatitis C virus.

Source: Irish Independent October 09, 2020 09:22 UTC