The UN said Tuesday that $35 billion would be needed for aid in 2021, as the pandemic leaves tens of millions more people in crisis, and with the risk of multiple famines looming.
Next year, one in 33 people worldwide will be in need of aid, the report found, stressing that if all of them lived in one country, it would be the world’s fifth largest nation. “The picture we are presenting is the bleakest and darkest perspective on humanitarian need in the period ahead that we have ever set out,” Lowcock said.
With only one true famine so far in the 21st century — in Somalia nearly a decade ago — mass starvation had appeared to have been “assigned to the dustbin of history,” he said.By the end of 2020, the number of acutely food-insecure people worldwide could swell to as much as 270 million — an 82-percent increase over the pre-Covid-19 number.
And it is asking for nearly $3.5 billion to help nearly 20 million Yemenis caught up in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.Other major crises requiring substantial funds include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan and Ethiopia. “The crisis is far from over. Humanitarian aid budgets face dire shortfalls as the impact of the global pandemic continues to worsen,” UN chief Antonio Guterres said in a statement.
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