[Braxton1980]

you said it was common and claimed it was UN officials. You only supplied one example. How can you make such a general claim?

Why would one UN official's reputation be affected by another? Especially if it's not common, which you haven't yet shown.

[dlubarov]

That wasn't me. I would say the question of how often UN officials lie is rather moot. If it follows from plain facts and basic math that the famine claim is false, we don't really need to argue about the credibility of those making the claims.