Burundi’s UNICEF representative Bo Viktor Nylund cited the Global Hunger Index in an article for The Guardian about the European Union suspending direct financial aid to Burundi. “Before the crisis, the Global Hunger Index had already rated Burundi as the hungriest country in the world,” he said. The African nation was ranked as the hungriest country in the 2014 Global Hunger Index. The country lacked sufficient data to be included in the 2015 report.