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Share: TEGUCIGALPA – The number of people going hungry in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua has nearly quadrupled in the last two years, the United Nations said on Tuesday, as Central America has been battered by an economic crisis. New data released by the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) showed nearly 8 million people across the four countries are experiencing hunger this year, up from 2.2 million in 2018. “The COVID-19-induced economic crisis had already put food on the mark...

According to WFP’s report, State of School Feeding Worldwide, 370 million children in 199 countries and territories were suddenly deprived of school meals, when schools closed due to the pandemic. That meal was for many their only nutritious food of the day.

On Tuesday evening Pope Francis sent a telegram to Italy’s president conveying his sorrow for the death of country’s ambassador to Democratic Republic of the Congo, who died Monday in an apparent kidnapping attempt.

Felix Tshisekedi instructs services to shed light on incident so perpetrators are identified

UN Mission In DRC Condemns Killing Of Italian Envoy Italy’s ambassador to country, Italian police officer and their Congolese World Food Program driver killed in armed attack. A UN official said Monday that those responsible for an armed attack which led to the death of the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo must be identified and brought to justice. "I am devastated by the death of Ambassador Luca Attanasio,...

Italian ambassador killed in Congo remembered for humanitarian work Feb 23, 2021 rome bureau chief Murdered Italian ambassador to Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio, pictured in a "Dream center" of SantEgidio in Kinshasa, that works with people living with HIV/AIDS. (Credit: SantEgido.) Italian Ambassador Luca Attanasio was remembered by his parish priest as a “light that breaks through the fog, illuminates and warms,” after he was killed in an attack in the east of the Democratic...

The lawmaker quit the conservative governing party after promoting false information about treatments and the vaccine. Meanwhile, Afghanistan kicked off its vaccination drive.

The lawmaker quit the governing conservative party after promoting false information about treatments and the vaccine. Meanwhile, Afghanistan has kicked off its vaccination drive. Follow DW for the latest.

The Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio, was killed on Monday during a visit to the eastern part of the country in a World Food Program (WFP) convoy

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