The United Nations said: “Surges in global food and energy prices have led to widespread poverty affecting 71 million people in low-income countries in just three months.”

“This acceleration in poverty is happening much faster than the shock of the Covid-19 pandemic,” the United Nations Development Program warned in a statement, stressing that “the countries concerned will need the support of the multilateral system to meet their needs.”

He believed: “At a time when interest rates are rising in response to an inflationary boom, there is a risk of new poverty as a result of deflation, which will further exacerbate the crisis, which in turn will lead to an acceleration and deepening of world poverty.”

The report examines the situation in 159 countries, while noting that “the countries that suffer from the most dangerous situations are located in the Balkans, in the Caspian Sea and in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the Sahel.”

“Unprecedented price increases mean for many people around the world that the food they could have access to yesterday is no longer available today,” said Achim Steiner, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. speed, while the risks of exacerbating social unrest are growing day by day. The countries most affected by high prices are Yemen, Sudan, Ethiopia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Haiti, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Tanzania.