UN Report: World faces global humanitarian crisis in addition to global health pandemic

As famines of ‘biblical proportion’ loom, Security Council urged to ‘act fast’

Noting that the global spread of COVID-19 this year has sparked “the worst humanitarian crisis since World War Two”, Executive Director of the World Food Programme ( WFP) David Beasley pointed to deepening crises, more frequent natural disasters and changing weather patterns, saying “we’re already facing a perfect storm”.