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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

Putin’s war fuelling ‘catastrophic’ crisis putting 50 million people ‘one step from famine’

Many women and children have been forced on long journeys in Somalia in search of food and water

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has “put more people at risk of death” in dozens of developing countries where nearly 50 million people are now just “one step away from famine,” a minister warned on Friday.

Africa minister Vicky Ford told of drought on an “unprecedented” scale in the Horn of Africa, with four consecutive failed rainy seasons, a climatic event which had not been seen in the last 40 years.

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