(FAO), five Arab countries, including Iraq, make up 76% of the world's displaced

(FAO), five Arab countries, including Iraq, make up 76% of the world's displaced


 
11-04-2018 12:10 PM

The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative in Jordan Talal al-Fayez said on Wednesday that 76 percent of the world's 65.6 million people are forcibly displaced from five Arab countries, including Iraq.

"About 76 percent of the 65.6 million forcibly displaced people in the world come from five countries in the Arab region - Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Syria and Yemen - without counting Palestinian refugees," Fayez said.

He added that 'crises have a direct impact on the region as a whole and not just on one country or another', stressing that there will be no food security or development if there is no effective action to stop conflicts and wars, and to achieve a just and sustainable peace.

"One in nine people in the world is starving, with a total of 815 million hungry," said Rene Verdouin, chief technical adviser to FAO. "Armed conflicts in the Arab region have a negative impact on food security and hunger has doubled, .

Verdwin noted that "70 to 80% of Syrians and Yemenis are suffering from acute food shortages, at a time when the cost of the war in Syria $ 226 billion."

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