Millions are being pushed into hunger by Iran war: UN food agency

Key points

• The United Nations (UN) food agency said millions of people are being pushed into acute hunger by the Iran war, as it warned would happen if the conflict escalated and oil prices remained high.
• The World Food Programme (WFP) said an analysis in three vulnerable countries found that an additional 2.5 million people in Somalia, 2.3 million in Afghanistan and 1.3 million in Sri Lanka are struggling to meet their basic food needs.
• In March, WFP predicted that 45 million people could be pushed into food insecurity by the end of June.
• That would be on top of the 318 million people around the world who are already food insecure.
• “We remain by that prognosis,” WFP's acting Executive Director Carl Skau told UN reporters.