U.N.: With 30 Million Facing Famine, Secretary-General Announces Prevention Task Force, Warns Security Council Against Cutting Aid as Solution to Economic Woes
U.N.: With 30 Million Facing Famine, Secretary-General Announces Prevention Task Force, Warns Security Council Against Cutting Aid as Solution to Economic Woes Targeted News Service March 11, 2021, by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the * * * Thank you for this opportunity to brief you on the links between conflict and hunger -- an urgent and important issue. Today, I have one simple message: If you don't feed people, you feed conflict. Conflict drives hunger and famine, and hunger and famine drive conflict. When a country or region is gripped by conflict and hunger, they become mutua...