Ethiopian peacekeepers serving with the African Union/United Nations Hybrid operation in 2014 in Darfur escorted World Food Programme trucks. The trip of barely 100 kilometers (about 62 miles) took more than eight hours due to difficult road conditions in Sudan. Fighting famine World Food Programme leader David Beasley pays a virtual visit to UD âWe have a vaccine for starvation. Itâs called food.â â David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme Scientists the world over scrambled to create vaccines and treatments for the coronavirus (COVID-19) during the last 16 months because nearly 3 million people have died and many parts of national and international economies have frozen during the pandemic.