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Malawi struggles to feed thousands as refugees from Mozambique add to crisis
DW News  |  Jan 03, 2025

The UNHCR is struggling to feed existing refugees in Malawi due to a funding crisis at the UN's World Food Programme

Global hunger crisis deepens as major nations skimp on aid
Reuters  |  Dec 25, 2024

The U.N. also will end 2024 having raised about 46% of the $49.6 billion it sought for humanitarian aid across the globe, its own data shows. It’s the...

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.

WFP’s troubles in Sudan hurt hunger relief, alienated donors - Internal report
Reuters  |  Dec 05, 2024

The report identifies a range of problems in the WFP’s Sudan response, including an inability to scale up its operations.

Major food aid 'scale-up' underway to famine-hit Sudan, WFP says
Reuters  |  Nov 27, 2024

Some of the food is intended for 14 areas of the country that face famine or are at risk of famine, including the Zamzam camp in the Darfur region.

Major food aid 'scale-up' underway to famine-hit Sudan, WFP says
Reuters  |  Nov 26, 2024

Some of the food is intended for 14 areas of the country that face famine or are at risk of famine, including Zamzam camp in the Darfur region.

Gaza food aid levels at ‘breaking point’ -UN
UN News  |  Oct 12, 2024

WFP distributed its last remaining food stocks in the north to partners and kitchens sheltering newly displaced families, but these are barely enough...

Hundreds of thousands in need of aid as flooding wipes out homes in Nigeria – WFP
UN News  |  Sep 14, 2024

Some 800,000 people in 29 states in Nigeria have been affected by floods as of September 2024, WFP said.

‘Giving help and giving hope’, an aerial lifeline to the world’s most isolated
UN News  |  Aug 31, 2024

Cindy McCain and Franklyn Frimpong, the UNHAS chief of aviation, have been discussing the importance of the life-saving service.

WFP launches probe into its Sudan operations as famine spreads
Reuters  |  Aug 29, 2024

The investigation comes at a critical time for the WFP, which describes itself as the world’s largest humanitarian organization. It won the 2020 Nobel...

Relief as UN trucks with aid food enter Sudan’s Darfur region
Vincent Ombati  |  Aug 22, 2024

The World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director, Cindy McCain, described the reopening of the Adre crossing as a crucial development.

Food prices increase as Sudan faces hunger crisis
Vincent Ombati  |  Aug 19, 2024

The WFP claims that the country's shortage of basic food commodities is to blame for this trend.

Africa set to lead world in hunger rates, UN report warns
Terry Muriuki  |  Jul 24, 2024

The report published on Wednesday said that if current trends continue, almost 582 million people will be chronically undernourished by 2030, with hal...

Dadaab, Kakuma refugee camps receive Sh4.8 billion extra funding
Vincent Ombati  |  Jun 19, 2024

WFP Kenya Director Lauren Landis said the contribution will enable them to increase the food rations for the most vulnerable refugees and restore the...

WFP expands response to avert famine in Sudan, seeks over $200 million to deliver help
UN News  |  Jun 08, 2024

WFP is also pre-positioning food at key border crossings and along supply routes because the imminent rainy season will make roads in the Darfurs and...

Canadian-Ethiopian musician The Weeknd gives WFP $2m for Gaza
Amina Wako  |  Apr 30, 2024

The donation will provide vital relief to thousands of Palestinian families struggling with hunger amid the conflict with Israel.

Situation in southern Gaza is ‘horrific and apocalpytic’: WFP
United Nations  |  Jun 01, 2024

The UN agency has been unable to access its main warehouse in the south because it was in an evacuation zone, and the 2,700 tonnes of food inside were...

Sudanese refugees face 'all-out catastrophe’ in Chad as funds dry up: UN
AFP  |  Mar 12, 2024

Sudan's vast western region was still reeling from the carnage of 2003 when a new war broke out last April between the army and the paramilitary Rapid...

UN condemns theft of food aid by Sudan’s warring sides
Paul Aginnah  |  Dec 29, 2023

The World Food Programme (WFP) has vehemently condemned the looting of essential food supplies from its warehouse in Sudan's Al-Jazira state, an incid...

World Food Program airlifts relief to El Nino-hit areas in Garissa County
Issa Hussein  |  Dec 11, 2023

The World Food Program (WFP) deployed Mi-8 helicopters to airlift food to sub-counties in Garissa County, where roads were cut off by the El Nino rain...

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