The United Nations warns that Somalia is on the brink of famine for the second time in just over a decade.

The number of people displaced worldwide passed a record 89 million last year, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says, warning that the intensification of a global food security crisis exacerbated by the Ukraine conflict could further increase that number.

A new UN report says surging global food insecurity has placed 750,000 people in five countries -- including Yemen and Afghanistan -- at immediate risk of “starvation or death.”

Yemenis have been employing an innovative way to circumvent the blockade, namely launching rockets carrying food to the besieged city of al-Durayhimi, says a report.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned of a “global food shortage” in the coming months due to the conflict in Ukraine.

The World Food Program says millions of Yemenis are on the brink of famine and millions more are food insecure, as a result of the ongoing Saudi war on the impoverished country.

Nearly 200 children under five years of age have died of severe acute malnutrition in Ethiopia's Tigray region, according to data collected from hospitals only.