The charity noted global military spending increased by $51bn during the pandemic — an amount that exceeds by at least six times what the United Nations needs to stop hunger
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/9/every-minute-11-people-die-of-hunger-oxfam
About 155 million people around the world live at crisis levels of food insecurity, 20 million more than last year, a new report says.
![Oxfam identified countries including Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan and Venezuela as places where existing food crises had been worsened by the onset of the pandemic and its economic consequences [File: Mohammed Huwais/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/000_9B733G.jpg?resize=770%2C513)
9 Jul 2021
Eleven people die every minute of hunger, according to a new report by Oxfam, which also found the number of those facing famine-like conditions globally has increased by six times over the past year.
Published on Friday, “The Hunger Virus Multiplies” report (PDF) said the death toll from famine outpaces that of COVID-19…
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