On Oct. 9, the evening of the announcement that the World Food Program received the Nobel Peace Prize, its Executive Director David Beasley, in Niger, was interviewed on the PBS NewsHour, by Amna Nawaz, for his reactions. He called it, “great news,” so that “we can really have a call to action.”
He explained that, “Just in the last three years, the number of people on the brink of starvation had risen before COVID, from 80 million to 135 million. And now, with COVID, the number of people—and I’m not talking about people going to bed hungry—on the brink of starvation is now up to 270 million people.
“And quite frankly, with the billionaires making hundreds of billions of dollars with COVID, we’re facing the worst humanitarian crises since World War II. They need to step up. We need an extra $5 billion to save millions of lives around the world.
“This is a call to action. With all the wealth in the world today, no one should be dying from hunger, not a single person.”
