WFP: World can't forget impoverished Sahel region

he of World Food Program said winning bel Peace Prize while he was visiting impoverished and war-weakened Sahel was a mess to world that it should t forget region.WFP Executive Director David Beasley spoke to reporters during a brief stop in Burkina Faso Friday, shortly after U.N. ncy won Peace Prize for fighting hunger at a time when coronavirus pandemic has driven millions more people to brink of starvation.

“ fact that I was in Sahel when we received anuncement is really a mess from above that, hey world with all things going on around world today please don’t forget about people in Sahel" said Beasley, who was in neighbouring Niger when he heard news.

"Please don’t forget about people that are struggling and dying from starvation.”Beasley said he hoped prize will propel dors, billionaires and people around world to alleviate suffering, especially in face of coronavirus, which will have a “catastrophic” impact on next year’s funding.

"We can avert famine if we have money. We can avert destabilization if we have money. We can avert migration by necessity if we have money. But we've got to have money," he said."It's a call to action and I'm specially calling up billionaires w," Beasley ded.

director ted he was particularly concerned about Burkina Faso, which has faced a violent Islamic insurgency that's cut off swaths of land and pushed millions of people to hunger.More than 3 million people in Burkina Faso are in need of emergency food aid, and some 11,000 people are facing famine conditions, according to latest security report by government and U.N. ncies.

(Im Credit: AP)