The world is witnessing “a collapse of the conditions under which people are able to survive” without additional supplies and a functioning infrastructure, head of the United Nations Development Programme told Anadolu news agency. “The situation as we meet today is getting more and more desperate. We have seen this week also extremely worrying statistics about famine conditions,” Achim Steiner said in an interview on Thursday.

 

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