Africa: Pandemic Fills Ranks of Extreme Poverty Worldwide

The U.N. projected that 235 million people worldwide - 1 in 33 people globally - will need humanitarian assistance in 2021

The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the number of people worldwide who need humanitarian assistance to survive to new highs, the United Nations said on Tuesday, dramatically increasing the ranks of extreme poverty in just one year.

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