UN’s World Food Programme wins the Nobel Peace Prize christiantoday.com
Amid a looming global hunger crisis accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations World Food Programme, which works to bring aid to millions of food-insecure people, has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday.
Pointing to a need for international solidarity and multilateral cooperation, the committee said the world's largest humanitarian organization was awarded the prize this year “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.”…
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