A general view of camps at Atmeh camp, near the Turkish border, Syria June 13, 2020. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria faces an unprecedented hunger crisis with over 9.3 million people lacking adequate food while the country's coronavirus outbreak, though apparently controlled for now, could still accelerate, U.N. aid agencies said on Friday.
The World Food Programme (WFP) told a briefing in Geneva that the number of people short of essential foodstuffs had risen by 1.4 million in the past six months.
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