Soaring food prices may cause widespread hunger

Speaking alongside Austria’s chancellor and foreign minister in Vienna, UN secretary-general António Guterres said he was “deeply concerned” about worldwide food shortages as the Russian invasion of Ukraine sent global prices for grains, cooking oils, fuel and fertiliser soaring, worsening a food crisis in African countries. He also warned disruption to shipping in the Black Sea risked spreading hunger also becoming “widespread in different parts of the world.”