World Bank Group President Jim Yong-Kim on Thursday said the
bank was working toward raising 1.6 billion dollars to build social protection
systems to end food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa and Yemen.
In a statement made available to newsmen by the Head of
Communications, World Bank Nigeria in Abuja, Mrs Olufunke Olufon, Yong-Kim said
about 20 million people in Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen were on the
“tipping point” of famine.
“We at the World Bank Group stand in solidarity with the
people now threatened by famine.
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