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UN chief `hopeful’ of Ukraine grain deal to help food crisis

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken chairs a ministerial meeting on growing food insecurity around the world, which has been exacerbated by Russia's war on Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, center, speaks as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken chairs a ministerial meeting on growing food insecurity around the world, which has been exacerbated by Russia's war on Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken chairs a ministerial meeting at U.N. headquarters on growing food insecurity around the world, which has been exacerbated by Russia's war on Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken chairs a ministerial meeting on growing food insecurity around the world, which has been exacerbated by Russia's war on Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Iza Ali, 25, selects vegetables to prepare a meal for her family at the Jere camp for people displaced by Islamist extremists in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 4, 2022. Iza Ali's five children are still waiting to eat at 3 p.m. It's not the first day that the family has gone without food since they fled extremist violence in northeast Nigeria six years ago. She and her husband scrape together $3 a day, but it's rarely enough to feed the family of seven. Often they scavenge for greens outside the Jere displacement camp where they live on the outskirts of Maiduguri. (AP Photo/Chinedu Asadu) A woman attends to her malnourished child at the United Nations Nutrition Center in Banki, on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Aid agencies are warning that acute malnutrition is on the rise in northeast Nigeria. The development comes after a year of poor food production in the country and as humanitarian aid is being diverted to the crisis in Ukraine. The U.N. children's agency says acute malnutrition has soared from affecting 1.4 million children to 1.7 million over the last year. (AP Photo/Chinedu Asadu) In this photo released by UNICEF, severely malnourished baby Mariyem lies in a temporary stabilisation center in the district of Afdera in the Afar region of Ethiopia Wednesday, May 11, 2022. According to UNICEF, the Afar region is facing multiple humanitarian emergencies and mass displacement due to drought and conflict, which has resulted in devastating food insecurity. (Zerihun Sewunet/UNICEF via AP) In this photo released by UNICEF, a mobile health and nutrition team attends to displaced mothers and their children at the Guyah site for internally-displaced people in the Afar region of Ethiopia Tuesday, May 10, 2022.. According to UNICEF, the Afar region is facing multiple humanitarian emergencies and mass displacement due to drought and conflict, which has resulted in devastating food insecurity. (Zerihun Sewunet/UNICEF via AP) United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, left, speaks as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, chairs a ministerial meeting on growing food insecurity around the world, which has been exacerbated by Russia's war on Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Mykola Solsky, agriculture minister of Ukraine, left, speaks to Sergiy Kyslytsya, permanent representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, right, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken chairs a ministerial meeting on growing food insecurity around the world, which has been exacerbated by Russia's war on Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock speaks as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken chairs a ministerial meeting on growing food insecurity around the world, which has been exacerbated by Russia's war on Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken chairs a ministerial meeting on growing food insecurity around the world, which has been exacerbated by Russia's war on Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)