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Associated Press: UN says world faces largest humanitarian сrisis since 1945

Published March 11, 2017 at 10:14 am

A Syrian boy walks with his sheep through the once rebel-held Bab Kinnisrin neighbourhood in the old part of the northern city of Aleppo during a sandstorm on March 10.

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UNITED NATIONS — The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was founded in 1945 with more than 20 million people in four countries facing starvation and famine, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Friday.

Stephen O’Brien told the U.N. Security Council that “without collective and coordinated global efforts, people will simply starve to death” and “many more will suffer and die from disease.”