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UN food chief: funding and access can avert starvation

by Associated Press
| April 26, 2020 9:27 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the World Food Program says he has been on the phone with leaders of some of the world’s richest nations with a critical message: the coronavirus pandemic is not only affecting your economy but is impacting the economies of vulnerable and conflict-torn countries where millions of people will face starvation if you cut the U.N. agency’s funding for food.

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