COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a five-year “Sow and Grow” project, supported by USD 10 million from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), in partnership with the government of Sri Lanka.
DAKAR – The Embassy of Japan in Dakar and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today have signed a new food assistance agreement worth JPY 200 million (approximately US$1.32 million) to support food and nutrition assistance in Guinea-Bissau.
CAIRO / BEIRUT / ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is warning that surging food and fuel prices driven by the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East could have ripple effects that will worsen hunger for vulnerable populations in the region and beyond. The escalation has already had a devastating impact on civilians bearing the brunt of the violence through mass displacement, loss of life, and the destruction of essential infrastructure.
As the conflict disrupts supply chains, drives up costs and weakens the purchasing power of families, people already on the edge could be pushed further towards severe food insecurity.
Below is a summary of WFP’s assessments of the early impacts of the conflict on food security and humanitarian aid - and how WFP is adapting and scaling up its emergency operations across the region to meet rising needs.
BEIRUT, Lebanon – The Government of Lebanon, through the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA), and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have activated an emergency cash assistance programme to conflict-affected families and are scaling up food assistance as mass displacement across the country grows.
FAO, IFAD and WFP bring together high-level representatives and farmers’ organizations for the annual joint event in Rome
Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today marked International Women’s Day with a joint event dedicated to strengthening women farmers’ access to justice, rights and opportunities.
DHAKA, Bangladesh – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a new contribution of USD $6.7 million (JPY 1.05 billion) from the Government of Japan to support Rohingya refugees and host community smallholder farmers in Cox’s Bazar.
Yokohama - The World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of US$67.3 million from the Government of Japan to provide assistance to vulnerable people affected by conflict, natural disasters, and economic crises in 27 countries across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
This is a summary of what was said by Samer Abdeljaber, WFP Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe (speaking from Cairo via Zoom) – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
GENEVA – The humanitarian situation across the Middle East is changing quickly driven by ongoing security developments. The United Nations World Food Programme is operational, positioned, and ready to scale as needs grow. We have activated emergency preparedness measures across the region and we can move fast.
This is a summary of what was said by John Aylieff, WFP Afghanistan Representative and Country Director (speaking from Bangkok via Zoom) – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
GENEVA – Afghanistan is seeing an escalation of insecurity on its borders— increased fighting on the eastern and southern frontier with Pakistan, and ongoing violence in Iran. This renewed fighting is putting immense pressure on communities already vulnerable and worn down by years of crisis, conflict and chaos.
BUJUMBURA, Burundi – The World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of over US$625,000 (approximately BIF 2 billion) from the Government of Japan to provide lifesaving food assistance for refugees fleeing the recent violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Burundians returning from refugee camps in Tanzania.
Rome, Italy – Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), today informed her global teams and the organization’s Executive Board, that she is planning to step down from her role in three months’ time to focus on her health.
BEIRUT, Lebanon – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes the continued support of the Government of the Republic of Korea to vulnerable communities in Lebanon through school meals and in-kind food assistance.
Chisinau, Moldova – Over four years of humanitarian assistance in the Republic of Moldova, the World Food Programme (WFP), with funding from the European Union (EU), has played a pivotal role in supporting the most vulnerable Ukrainian refugees, alongside the Moldovan families and communities that have welcomed them during one of Europe’s longest displacement crises.
Nearly 6.5 million Somalis face high levels of hunger, and more than 1.8 million children face acute malnutrition due to worsening drought, the Somali government and UN agencies have warned in a new report.
DILI, Timor–Leste - The Government of Timor-Leste, in collaboration with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the Ministry of Social Solidarity and Inclusion (MSSI), and the National Institute of Statistics of Timor-Leste (INETL), has launched a major data-driven initiative to modernize the country’s social protection system and enhance maternal and child nutrition outcomes.
This is a summary of what was said by the United Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP) Director of Emergency Preparedness and Response, Ross Smith, to whom quoted text may be attributed – at a press briefing in Geneva today.
ROME/GENEVA - I would like to share the latest updates from WFP about the extremely worrying humanitarian situation in Somalia.
MOGADISHU, Somalia – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is sounding the alarm that its life‑saving emergency food and nutrition assistance in Somalia is at imminent risk of grinding to a halt without new immediate funding commitments. The organization’s resources are expected to be depleted within weeks without urgent replenishment.
KARACHI, Pakistan (February 17, 2026) —The Government of Sindh and the United States Department of Agriculture’s McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program today launched the Sindh School Meals Program, which leverages U.S.-provided commodities to deliver daily cooked meals and take-home rations to more than 200,000 students across nearly 1,300 primary schools in Sindh.
BISHKEK, Kyrgyz Republic – The Government of Japan has contributed USD 4.5 million to a new WFP‑led initiative, implemented with the Ministry of Water Resources, Agriculture and Processing Industry, to strengthen climate‑resilient agricultural value chains and support 17,000 smallholder farmers in some of the Kyrgyzstan's most climate‑vulnerable regions.
JUBA, South Sudan – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling up its emergency response to reach the growing number of people forced to flee spiralling conflict in South Sudan’s Jonglei state. These life-saving food distributions, transported along river routes, come amid increasing insecurity that is hampering humanitarian efforts and threatening to drive hunger in the region to unprecedented levels.
PORT SUDAN, Sudan 18 February 2026 – A United Nations (UN) inter‑agency convoy led by the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has reached Dilling and Kadugli, South Kordofan, with life-saving humanitarian supplies to assist over 130,000 people. This marks the first major delivery of assistance to the area in three months.
DELHI, India — With 318 million people facing acute hunger worldwide and the humanitarian system over-stretched and under-funded, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is calling on leaders attending India’s AI Impact Summit to join its efforts to scale artificial intelligence solutions that are already delivering results on the front lines of the hunger crisis.
KIGALI – The World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of over USD 666,000 (approximately RWF 970 million) from the Government of Japan to provide lifesaving food assistance to refugees, asylum seekers and returnees in Rwanda.
ALGIERS – The Government of Croatia has made its first contribution to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Algeria to assist Sahrawi refugees. Croatia’s contribution of €70,000 (US$82,000) will help WFP provide
monthly life-saving food assistance to more than 133,000 vulnerable beneficiaries living in camps near Tindouf.
WFP is outraged by recent attacks on its trucks, assets and facilities in Sudan. Four incidents over the past 10 days have resulted in humanitarians killed or injured while delivering life-saving food assistance to the most vulnerable civilians.
