More than 1m in Lebanon face acute food insecurity: UN

BEIRUT, Nov 11: More than one million people in Lebanon face acute food insecurity, the United Nations warned on Wednesday, following years of war and economic crisis.

Lebanon has endured two successive wars with neighbouring Israel since 2023 and remains mired in an unprecedented economic collapse triggered seven years ago.

Nearly a quarter of the population face crisis levels of acute food insecurity or worse, said a joint statement by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, the World Food Programme and the Lebanese agriculture ministry.

They called for "urgent action" to alleviate the situation.�" AFP