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World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the WFP headquarters in Rome, Nov. 2, 2021. Beasley announced Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022, that he will step down from his role as executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, ending a six-year term heading the world’s largest humanitarian organization. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)

Former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley to step down as UN food chief

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World Food Program chief David Beasley meets with villagers in the village of Wagalla in northern Kenya Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. The United States is stepping up to buy about 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine in the next few weeks for an upcoming shipment of food aid from ports no longer blockaded by war, the World Food Program chief has told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

UN: U.S. buying big Ukraine grain shipment for hungry regions

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

In this image made from UNTV video, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a U.N. Security Council high-level meeting on COVID-19 recovery focusing on vaccinations, chaired by British Foreign Secretary Dominc Raab, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, at UN headquarters, in New York. (UNTV via AP)

UN appeals for $5.5 billion to avert famine for 34 million

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Nov. 23, 2019, file photo, a woman holds her malnourished boy at a feeding center at the Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. After a visit to Yemen the World Food Program's executive director, David Beasley, warned that his underfunded organization may be forced to seek hundreds of millions of dollars in private donations in a desperate bid to stave off widespread famine in the coming months. Beasley told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday, March 10, 2021, that conditions in war-wrecked Yemen are “hell.” (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

‘This is hell’: U.N. food aid chief visits Yemen, fears famine

By Maggie Hyde - Associated Press

FILE - World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley speaks to the media about the organization's Nobel Peace Prize win, at the airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, late Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Beasley says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars “we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Nobel UN food agency warns 2021 will be worse than 2020

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN food chief: Yemen faces `looming famine,’ needs millions

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Nobel winner urges billionaires to save millions from famine

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley speaks to the media about the organization's Nobel Peace Prize win, at the airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, late Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. The World Food Program won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting hunger and seeking to end its use as &quot;a weapon of war and conflict&quot; at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has driven millions more people to the brink of starvation. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

WFP chief seeks million from donors, billionaires for food

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Nov. 14, 2008, file photo, a woman receives a bag of maize meal from the World Food Program in the town of Rutshuru, eastern Congo. The World Food Program chief warned Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, that millions of people are closer to starvation because of the deadly combination of conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic and he urged donor nations and billionaires to help feed them and ensure their survival. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

UN food chief urges rich to help keep millions from starving

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - This April 19, 2020 file photo shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province, Syria. The head of the U.N. food agency warned of starvation and another wave of mass migration from Syria to Europe unless donors countries step up financial assistance to the war-ravaged country. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)

UN food agency calls for aid to prevent another Syria exodus

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

In this picture taken on March 3, 2020 and provided by UNICEF, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore, center, and WFP Executive Director, David Beasley, left, seated, interact with 3rd grade children, at Tal-Amara school, southern Idlib, Syria. Fore expressed hope in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday that a cease-fire that went into effect in Syria will hold so that children can return to normal life adding that nearly one third of Syria's children are out of school. Fore visited Syria this week where she met officials and toured villages on the edge of the northwestern province of Idlib. (Omar Sanadiki/UNICEF via AP )

UN food chief: funding and access can avert starvation

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN food agency chief: World on brink of `a hunger pandemic’

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN food aid chief fears for Africa, Mideast amid new crises

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FILE - In this March 21, 2019 file photo, David Beasley, executive director of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Cairo, Egypt. In the wake of an internal survey that detailed multiple allegations of rape and sexual harassment of its female staffers, Beasley vowed to go after abusers. Beasley said over the past year he has been increasing the number of investigators at the agency to 22 to look into allegations of misconduct, including a number who specialize in dealing with victims of sexual violence. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

WFP chief vows more ‘aggressive’ action on sexual harassment

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018 file photo, fighters with the Free Syrian army eat in a cave where they live, on the outskirts of the northern town of Jisr al-Shughur, Syria, west of the city of Idlib. Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency news agency said Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, that Syrian rebels have finished withdrawing all their heavy weapons from the front lines in the northwestern province of Idlib. The move was part of a deal reached between Russia and Turkey to demilitarize the front lines between Syrian government forces and the opposition in and around the province. Idlib is the last major rebel stronghold in Syria. (Ugur Can/DHA via AP, File)

WFP chief says agency preparing for wave of Idlib refugees

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley speaks during an interview in Beijing, Friday, May 11, 2018. The head of the United Nations' World Food Program says a peace agreement with North Korea will go far toward easing the impoverished nation's chronic food security woes. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

AP Interview: Food agency head hopes talks help N. Koreans

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Program, talks during an interview at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra, Australia, Monday, March 26, 2018. Beasley says the collapse of the Islamic State movements self-described caliphate across Syria and Iraq has led to extremists mounting a recruitment drive in sub-Sahara Africa which threatens to trigger a new European migrant crisis. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

David Beasley, U.N. food agency boss, warns of migrant crisis

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

UN food agency chief plans to visit North Korea amid drought

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Ex-South Carolina governor to head UN food agency

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Beasley to head United Nation’s food distribution program

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