Thread by @AlbanaKasapi

“Millions of people are marching to starvation.” 1   @WFPChief David Beasly summing up impact of #Ukraine war  in an interview on @bbcworldservice radio #Weekend programme
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“Ukraine is the bread basket of the world. 400 million people receive their food because of what happens in  #Ukraine and that is now shut down. So what impact that is going to have , it’s going to be catastrophic” 2
@WFPChief on @bbcworldservice radio #Weekend

“WFP’s monthly expense now increased 71 million dollars more per month which means we will be feeding 4 million less people and we are already cutting rations to ppl around the world because we don’t have the money and the food we need.”3 
@WFPChief on @bbcworldservice #Weekend

“In Yemen we cut 50 percent of rations. Niger. Mali. Ethiopia… and that’s just in the humanitarian world. This is going to have a crippling effect … for the rest of the people in the planet, the 7.7 billion people” 4 
@WFPChief on @bbcworldservice #Weekend

‘It’s going to be a perfect storm, within a perfect storm. A catastrophy within a catastrophy. 5 
@WFPChief on @bbcworldservice #Weekend

“And oh my Gosh, what we are facing now. We don’t get the food that we need, the money that we need. You are asking us which children are we not going to feed? 6
@WFPChief on @bbcworldservice radio #Weekend 
Interview in full here from 00:40 

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…