ROME (Reuters) -Millions more people risk famine in at least a dozen crisis spots around the world, including Sudan and Gaza, two U.N. agencies warned on Wednesday, appealing for funds to address a shortfall amid global cuts to international aid.

In a joint report, the World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization also listed Haiti, Mali, South Sudan and Yemen as countries facing “an imminent risk of catastrophic hunger”, meaning famine.

It said the hunger situation in six more countries – Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Somalia and Syria – was considered to be of “very high concern”.

Against this backdrop, funding shortfalls for humanitarian aid “are crippling emergency responses, forcing deep ration cuts and reducing access to food for

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