FAO names six countries of greatest hunger concern

Haiti, Mali, Palestine, South Sudan, Sudan and Yemen are the countries that cause the greatest concern due to the hunger situation, said Oleg Kobyakov, head of the FAO office for relations with the Russian Federation.

In Sudan, nearly 20 million people lack sustainable access to food, about 5 million live in extreme food insecurity, and an estimated 135,000 are at risk of survival.

In South Sudan and Somalia, food shortages are coupled with soaring prices and falling incomes, leaving 6 million people in crisis and 1.9 million children suffering from malnutrition.

MOSCOW, September 24 - RIA Novosti. The famine situation in Haiti, Mali, Palestine, South Sudan, Sudan and Yemen is of greatest concern, Oleg Kobyakov, head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) office for relations with the Russian Federation, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

“The most disadvantaged countries today in terms of food security are Haiti, Mali, Palestine, South Sudan, Sudan and Yemen. It is these countries and territories that cause the greatest concern,” Kobyakov said.

According to him, a total of 16 countries are identified as hotbeds of “acute food insecurity.”

“If we talk about Sudan and the Gaza Strip, the physical shortage of food and the lack of humanitarian access to those in need due to the armed conflict are most pronounced there,” the agency’s interlocutor noted.

According to him, almost 20 million people in Sudan do not have stable access to food, about 5 million people live in extreme food shortages, and approximately 135 thousand people are on the brink of survival.