Aid organizations are urging G-7 leaders to look at world hunger. The leaders of G=7 countries are meeting in Sicily.
Aid organizations are trying to bring their attention to people in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Yemen. People in those countries are at severe risk of starvation.
Mary Rumsby, senior manager for food security and nutrition at Global Citizen, is representing 2,500 aid organizations in bringing attention to this issue.
She spoke about the progress of her work.“It is obviously so important this year with famine looming in four countries, and unfortunately the G7 did not reach agreement on how much finances they would put towards that initiative. So, we understand that the initiative will not be launched at the G7 this year. The text that was going to be included as an annex will not be there,” she said.
Some of the hunger issues are due to war, others due to drought. In some cases both war and drought are factors.