“Extreme poverty is on the rise again.

Hunger remains a terrible prospect for 45 million people in 43 countries, ”the TASS document is quoted as saying.

To provide assistance to the most needy 173 million people will need $ 41 million.

Earlier, the head of the communications department of the UNICEF office in Afghanistan, Samantha Mort, said that more than 1 million children in the country are on the verge of starvation.