More than 1 billion starving as economic crisis continues, U.N. reports

Published on 15 October 2009

"It is unacceptable in the 21st century that almost one in six of the world's population is now going hungry," Josette Sheeran, WFP executive director, told CNN. (..) "At a time when there are more hungry people in the world than ever before, there is less food aid than we have seen in living memory," Sheeran said.

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