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The twin baby boys lay on a bed of woven palm leaves in a remote camp for displaced people in Yemen's north, their collarbones and ribs visible. They cried loudly, twisting as if in pain, not from disease but from the hunger gnawing away at them. In multiple countries, the coronavirus pandemic has added a new burden on top of the impact of ongoing wars, pushing more people into poverty, unable click afford food. At the same time, international aid funding World Hunger and Absolute Poverty fallen short, weakening a safety net that keeps people alive. In Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, Zemaray Hakimi said he can give his children only one meal a day — usually hard, black bread dunked in tea.

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He lost his work as a taxi driver after contracting COVID and now waits daily on the street for day labourer work that rarely comes. When his children complain of hunger, he said, "I tell them to bear it. One day, maybe we can get something better.

South Sudan may be closer than any other country to famine, as crisis after crisis wears on a population depleted by five years of civil war. COVID has restricted trade and travel. Food prices rose. Post-war unrest remains deadly; gunmen recently fired on WFP boats carrying supplies. For years, Yemen has been the centre of the world's worst food crisis, driven by the destructive civil war between Iranian-backed Houthi rebels — who in took over the north and the capital, Sanaa — and a Saudi-led coalition backing the government in the south.

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International aid pulled it from the edge of famine two years ago. But the threat has surged back this year, fuelled by increasing violence and a currency collapse that put food out of reach for growing numbers of people.

Donors have been wary of new funding because of corruption and restrictions that Houthis have put on humanitarian workers. Their father, Hassan al-Jamai, was a farmer in northern Hajjah province, near the border with Saudi Arabia.]