UN: biggest crisis since 1945 threatens

new york - UN fear the worst humanitarian crisis since its inception in 1945. That said Stephen O'Brien Friday (local time) in a letter to the Security Council.

According to the coordinator of UN relief threaten to starve more than 20 million people in four countries. With two-thirds of the population depend on aid, nearly 19 million people, Yemen is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Seven million inhabitants of the country on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula hungry. In South Sudan, Somalia and northeastern Nigeria facing millions of people in need.

' Without concerted and coordinated efforts globally, people will simply die of starvation, '' said O'Brien.

He urged the international community and the Security Council to come into action and combat the causes of the famine by, among other concerns in the affected countries to access food. The concerned parties in the region, humanitarian agencies should provide safe and unrestricted access to the affected people. Finally, the international community must ensure an end to the fighting in the country, O'Brien writes in his letter.