Hunger in Syria (original) (raw)

Hunger in Syria is a present-day crisis that has become prominent since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war and exacerbated by the country's efforts to control the spread of the covid-19 coronavirus. The United Nations reported in 2020 that Syria faced "an unprecedented hunger crisis" as food prices had risen by 200 percent within a year with "tens of thousands" at risk of famine in the north-west region of the country, described as "the worst humanitarian crisis since violence broke out in Syria nine years ago". The World Food Program was supporting 4.8 million Syrians in need of food.