In the shadow of COVID-19, the spectre of famine

With such a lukewarm commitment, the world may very well see another plague make a deadly comeback soon.

In Yemen, the war that has been raging since 2014 has so far thrown more than 16 million people into food insecurity. It is, according to the UN, the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet, writes Jean-Frédéric Légaré-Tremblay. Flickr photograph by Carl Waldmeier

Opinion

BY JEAN-FRéDéRIC LéGARé-TREMBLAY

April 14, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is monopolizing our attention. We are watching and suffering its consequences, first at home. Meanwhile, abroad, it has joined with other plagues to fuel a crisis that is escaping our attention. The kind of crisis that, because it unfolds in slow motion instead of exploding sud...

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