Globally, enough food is produced to feed the world’s seven billion people, and yet 811 million still go to bed hungry each night.
Award-winning chef and TV personality Andrew Zimmern was recently named a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), expanding his global advocacy to fight hunger and food waste around the world.
Finding a national consensus to move forward following October’s military takeover of Sudan’s government, and subsequent reappointment of the civilian Prime Minister, is going to be a challenge, but discussions to restore trust are underway.
That’s according to the top UN official in the country, Volker Perthes, who also heads the UN assistance mission in Sudan, UNITAMS.
Survivors of genocide and other atrocities committed by ISIL fighters in Iraq should rest assured that the international community supports them.
That’s the message from Christian Ritscher, head of UNITAD, the special UN team investigating these crimes.
While it might appear action is slow coming, he said there is no statute of limitations and crimes can be prosecuted “as long as at least one perpetrator is alive.”
