UN says 155 million people faced severe hunger last year

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2020 file photo, a malnourished girl, Rahmah Watheeq, receives treatment at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. In a grim update to the U.N. Security Council Thursday, April 15, 2021, Mark Lowcock, the U.N. humanitarian chief warned that the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in Yemen is getting even worse with the COVID-19 pandemic “roaring back” in recent weeks as the Arab world’s poorest country faces a large-scale famine. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

A displaced Tigrayan boy walks with a relative to receive food at the Hadnet General Secondary School which has become a makeshift home to thousands displaced by the conflict, in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The Tigray conflict has displaced more than 1 million people, the International Organization for Migration reported in April, and the numbers continue to rise. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

FILE - In this May 10, 2009 file photo, a man carries a sack of wheat distributed to poor displaced families, distributed by World Food Program with the cooperation of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the United States Agency for International Development, in Kandahar Afghanistan. After 20 years America is ending its “forever” war in Afghanistan. With a poverty rate of 54 per cent, which means the majority of Afghans are living on $1.90, the majority of Afghans hold out little hope for their future according to a 2018 Gallup poll. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan, File)