UN World Food Programme Stories

Kenya refugee camps face hunger crisis as WFP warns food aid could drop to 28pc
Rachael Mutabasi  |  May 22, 2025

This alarming development comes amid a surge in refugee numbers, driven by escalating conflict and drought in neighbouring Somalia and South Sudan, le...

Hunger crisis in DRC deepens as WFP calls for urgent global action
Rachael Mutabasi  |  May 20, 2025

The agency is calling for immediate and coordinated action from local, national, and international partners to address what it describes as the most s...

UN food agency shuts Southern Africa bureau during drought, citing low funding
Reuters  |  Mar 04, 2025

The agency would consolidate its eastern and southern African operations and run both from Nairobi.

Sh4.3 billion funding gap threatens Kenya's food aid operations, WFP warns
Lucy Mumbi  |  Feb 17, 2025

The organisation says it has secured Sh12.5 billion ($97 million) for the entire year but estimates that it will require Sh16.85 billion ($130.5 milli...

World’s hunger watchdog warned of catastrophe in Sudan; famine struck anyway
Reuters  |  Dec 06, 2024

In the Zamzam displaced persons’ camp, children were dying for months before it was found to be in famine.

UN World Food Programme launches investigation into its Sudan operations as famine spreads
Reuters  |  Aug 28, 2024

Two of its top officials in Sudan are being probed over allegations including fraud and concealing information from donors about its ability to delive...

Sudan to open Adre border crossing to facilitate humanitarian aid access
UN News  |  Aug 17, 2024

The development comes amid ongoing conflict including a bombing attack on Wednesday that devastated a school and market in the city of El Obeid, leavi...

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