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News Releases
Official statements announcing key developments in WFP operations and activities.
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Focus on Women
5 March 2014
Empowering Women Will End Hunger: Celebrating Women’s Role In Meeting The Zero Hunger Challenge
ROME/BISHKEK – Every year, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) provides more than eleven million schoolgirls with food to help keep them in education and around three million vulnerable women with special nutritional support. This year, on International Women’s Day (March 8), WFP is celebrating how empowering women can boost global efforts to end hunger.
4 March 2014
Japanese Contributions Help Vulnerable Malawian Families As Well As Refugees
Lilongwe - The Government of Japan has renewed its commitment to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), contributing a total of US$2.1 million in support of the most food-insecure and vulnerable people in Malawi, including refugees.
Logistics
4 March 2014
UK’s DFID Gives £2 Million To WFP Nepal For Earthquake Emergency Preparedness
KATHMANDU – The United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) has made a contribution of £2 million (NPR 328.8 million) to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Nepal to boost national capacity to respond to a major earthquake in the Kathmandu Valley.
3 March 2014
WFP Delivers Vital Food To Conflict-Affected People In Eastern DRC’s Remote Beni Region
GOMA –The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun food distributions to 74,000 people affected by armed conflict in the Beni region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Inhabitants have been returning to this remote area of North Kivu near the Ugandan border following attacks and occupation by rebels in the latter half of last year. Journalists
28 February 2014
European Union And World Food Programme Sign Agreement To Enhance Food And Nutrition In Guinea-Bissau
On 28 February 2014, in Bissau, Ambassador Joaquín González-Ducay, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, and Mr. Ussama Osman, Country Director and Representative of the World Food Programme (WFP), participated in a signing ceremony to recognize a contribution agreement for the amount of 5 million Euro (about USD 6.8 million) in the framework of the implementation of the programme "Integrated Actions in Nutrition and Agricultural Development" (UE-AINDA). Journalists
28 February 2014
Major Donation From Japan Helps Feed Millions Of Hungry People In 26 Countries
YOKOHAMA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) this month welcomed a US$88.3 million contribution from the Government of Japan. The donation will enable WFP to provide urgently-needed food and nutrition assistance to the most vulnerable people in 26 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, in addition to supporting special humanitarian logistics operations in four of those countries.
Responding to Emergencies
25 February 2014
WFP Warns Of Regional Crisis Due To Mass Exodus From Violent Central African Republic
ROME - As thousands of people continue to flee violence across the Central African Republic (CAR), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is warning that neighbouring countries are struggling with more than 150,000 new arrivals in urgent need of assistance.
ED - E.Cousin
24 February 2014
Mexico And UN World Food Programme To Strengthen Partnership In Fight Against Hunger
MEXICO CITY – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director, Ertharin Cousin, begins a two-day visit to Mexico today. During her visit to the capital, Cousin will meet with the President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, government officials and private sector representatives.
Hunger in the news
21 February 2014
WFP Executive Director Visits Zimbabwe At Peak Of The Country's Lean Season
Harare – The Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, has met Zimbabwe’s leaders to discuss food insecurity in the country. It is estimated that at this point of the lean season – the pre-harvest period when many families have depleted their own-produced stocks – one in four people in rural areas is having problems meeting food needs.
Hunger in the news
19 February 2014
Visit To Zimbabwe By Executive Director Of The United Nations World Food Programme
HARARE – The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, begins a visit to Zimbabwe today. She will meet senior government officials and local representatives of donor governments to discuss WFP operations and issues of food and nutrition security in the country.
