World News in Brief: El Niño’s $11 trillion price tag, Mozambique and Yemen updates

The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) warned Monday that El Niño-driven extreme weather could cost the global economy as much as $11 trillion while sharply undermining food security in developing countries. The agency tied the estimate to the climate pattern’s disruptive effects on rural livelihoods and agricultural output, with vulnerable economies facing the heaviest exposure. The warning comes as Mozambique and Yemen also feature in the UN’s latest world news roundup, underscoring a broader set of climate and humanitarian pressures. The scale of the projected loss matters because it frames El Niño as a macroeconomic risk, not only a weather event. Next, watch how governments and development lenders factor the estimate into adaptation spending and food-security planning.