UN World Food Programme Stories
This alarming development comes amid a surge in refugee numbers, driven by escalating conflict and drought in neighbouring Somalia and South Sudan, le...
The agency is calling for immediate and coordinated action from local, national, and international partners to address what it describes as the most s...
More than 10 million people in Ethiopia are gravely short of food, including 3 million displaced by conflict and extreme weather conditions, as well a...
WFP has warned that its life-saving operations are severely hampered by significant funding shortfalls, with 3.6 million of the most vulnerable indivi...
Those facing acute hunger are classified as Phase 3 or higher in the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). Of the 28 million in Congo,...
The agency would consolidate its eastern and southern African operations and run both from Nairobi.
The Kenya Meteorological Department’s climate outlook for March-May 2025 predicts varied rainfall patterns, with some areas expected to receive near t...
A passenger boat from Bukavu to Goma left on Tuesday morning, operator Lweni Ndale said, adding it was the first he had sent since late January, short...
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...
The programme has seen a 28 per cent increase in enrolment of young learners from 23,499 in 2021 to 35,238 in 2024. Adan attributed this to the nutrit...
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...
In the Zamzam displaced persons’ camp, children were dying for months before it was found to be in famine.
The report identifies a range of problems in the WFP’s Sudan response, including an inability to scale up its operations.
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.
Cindy McCain and Franklyn Frimpong, the UNHAS chief of aviation, have been discussing the importance of the life-saving service.
Two of its top officials in Sudan are being probed over allegations including fraud and concealing information from donors about its ability to delive...
Some 118,000 people have been displaced nationwide and more than 300,000 affected across the country, as the floods destroy homes and spread diseases...
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...
WFP has described Sudan as the world's biggest hunger crisis, with the western Darfur region most at risk as Sudan's 15-month civil war that has displ...
According to the assessment, the number of people experiencing a hunger crisis rose by 45% to 25.6 million, or more than half the population, in the l...
The World Food Programme has warned that a massive public health crisis is looming in Gaza due to the lack of clean water, food and medical supplies.
The conflict between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has also led to worsening hunger, with some people eating soil or leaves...
ACF sounded an alert over the 480,000 cases of severe child malnutrition expected in the year to September 2024.
The UN agency reported on Friday that 37 trucks carrying 1,300 tons of supplies crossed last week into West Darfur from Adre in Chad
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...
Kenya's Ministry of Environment and Climate Change has issued a stark warning: climate change directly threatens food and nutrition security, particul...
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...
The ongoing fighting has made it extremely challenging for humanitarian agencies to safely deliver assistance.
A beacon of hope shone today in Nairobi as Asal counties joined hands with the World Food Programme (WFP) through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)....
