Humanitarian agencies need $4.4 billion by July to assist more than 20 million people facing starvation and famine in the world's worst humanitarian crisis since World War II, said United Nations Undersecretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs Stephen O'Brien. Failure to get a significant increase in aid would reverse economic development gains and destroy livelihoods, futures and hope, he said.
Special Broadcasting Service (Australia)/Agence France-Presse (3/12), The Guardian (London)/The Associated Press (3/10)
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