'Falling off a cliff': pandemic crippling world's most fragile states, finds report

The world's poorest are becoming poorer as the impact of Covid compounds existing crises, says Disaster Emergency Comittee

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Thousands could starve in the world's most fragile states as the pandemic comes on top of existing crises, warns a new report today which found aid workers are deeply pessimistic about the coming year.

The survey of aid workers by the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) found that they believed humanitarian conditions were at their worst in a decade.