US Gov David Beasley

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2019 World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley told the UN Security Council that even before Covid-19 became an issue, he was telling world leaders that "2020 would be facing the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II".
2020 "We could be looking at famine in about three-dozen countries... There is also a real danger that more people could potentially die from the economic impact of COVID-19 than from the virus itself" (italics added).
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That's because of wars in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere, locust swarms in Africa, frequent natural disasters and economic crises including in Lebanon, Congo, Sudan and Ethiopia, he said.