Nearly 30 years ago a malnourished two-year-old girl died in front of US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a refugee camp in northern Uganda. Two days ago UN food chief David Beasley met a starving five-month-old girl at a hospital in Yemen - she died on Thursday.

“What’s the difference today?” Thomas-Greenfield said. “Today we should have better information ... We can save lives if we know where to go and if we put the funding toward it.”