Whereas Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen are all in famine, pre-famine, or at risk of famine stages in 2017; Whereas, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), 20,000,000 people are at risk of starvation within the next six months in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen; Whereas, on March 22, 2017, Mr. Yves Daccord, the Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, testified that the crisis represents one of the most critical humanitarian issues to face mankind since the end of the Second World War and warned that we are at the brink of a humanitarian mega-crisis unprecedented in recent history ; Whereas, according to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), More than 5.1 million people face severe food insecurity in northeastern Nigeria ; Whereas, according to USAID, An estimated 6.2 million people—more than half of Somalia’s total population—currently require urgent humanitarian assistance. ; Whereas, according to USAID, An estimated 5.5 million people—nearly half of South Sudan’s population—will face life threatening hunger by July. ; Whereas, according to USAID, in Yemen, More than seventeen million people—an astounding 60% of the country’s population—are food insecure, including seven million people who are unable to survive without food assistance. ; Whereas, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Some 22 million children have been left hungry, sick, displaced and out of school in the four countries. Nearly 1.4 million are at imminent risk of death this year from severe malnutrition. ; Whereas the humanitarian crises in each of these regions are, to varying degrees, man-made and preventable—exacerbated by armed conflict, disregard for international humanitarian law, and deliberate restrictions on humanitarian access