ROME, Italy – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced Lucy Hale — world-renowned actress and producer — as its newest global Goodwill Ambassador. In this role, she will advocate on behalf of the more than 318 million people facing extreme hunger. As the daughter of a Tennessee farmer and a nurse, Hale is a strong advocate for women and children and cares deeply about food security, small-scale farmers, and children’s health and education.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – With new data showing more than half of all Haitians continue to face acute food insecurity, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is urgently calling for support to protect recent fragile gains in the fight against hunger and to foster stability in the struggling Caribbean nation.
This is a transcript of what was said on April 16th by Cindy McCain, WFP Executive Director, at the 113th Meeting of the World Bank Group Development Committee in Washington D.C. – to whom quoted text may be attributed
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of US$2 million from the Government of Japan to support vulnerable communities affected by disasters across Pakistan.
THIMPHU, Bhutan: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) have signed a US$9.5 million agreement to improve access to nutritious school meals for more than 100,000 children in Bhutan, while strengthening local food production and rural livelihoods.
MOGADISHU – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) expresses its sincere appreciation to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for its generous USD 4.5 million contribution through the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief). This support enabled WFP to provide nutrition assistance to more than 180,000 children and pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in Somalia, helping to prevent malnutrition.
NEW YORK – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today released its next-generation platform, HungerMap Live, a powerful digital monitoring and intelligence capability that integrates a wide range of food security data and analysis with predictive modelling to help fight hunger in more than 50 countries.
ADEN, Yemen – As more than 17 million people across Yemen faced hunger in 2025, a US$25 million contribution from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) enabled the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to deliver lifesaving food assistance and strengthen livelihoods for vulnerable families.
NORTH DARFUR, Sudan — On the eve of three years of devastating war, the Sudanese people are still being left to cope with intense fighting and widespread suffering. Conflict is killing and injuring countless civilians, and leaving millions without access to food, shelter or sanitation, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today.
This is a summary of what was said by WFP’s Director of Emergency Preparedness and Response, Ross Smith, to whom quoted text may be attributed – at a press briefing in Geneva today.
N’Djamena – More than a million Sudanese refugees in Chad face immediate and life-threatening cuts to food, water, shelter, protection and health care, two leading UN humanitarian agencies warned today as the conflict in neighbouring Sudan approaches the three year mark.
KHARTOUM, Sudan — The World Food Programme (WFP) today announced the return of its Sudan Country Office to the capital Khartoum. The announcement was made by Carl Skau, WFP’s Deputy Executive Director, following a meeting in Khartoum with Kamil Idris, Prime Minister of Sudan. In attendance, was Abdallah Al Wardat, WFP’s new Country Director in Sudan. The agency’s planned return to the capital comes three years after WFP’s former premises were looted and destroyed at the beginning of the war in 2023.
DAMASCUS – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received a contribution of 2,400 metric tons of rice from the Republic of Korea, helping strengthen support to vulnerable families across Syria and reach approximately 1.2 million people for one month. The rice has arrived at WFP warehouses, and distribution is already under way to ensure assistance reaches families most in need.
DHAKA, Bangladesh – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun implementing its Targeting and Prioritization Exercise (TPE) for monthly food assistance across the Rohingya refugee camps, marking an important transition toward needs-based support for nearly 1.2 million refugees living in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), in partnership with the Royal Government of Cambodia and with financial support from the Government of Japan, today launched a new initiative to improve nutrition among garment factory workers through expanded access to fortified rice.
This is a transcript of what was said by Corinne Fleischer, WFP Director of Supply Chain (speaking from Rome via Zoom) – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
The briefing highlighted the severe impact that conflict in the Middle East is having on WFP's Supply Chain operations as food deliveries to life saving operations around the world face long delays and increased costs. In the most significant disruption to humanitarian supply chains since Covid or the start of the war in Ukraine, WFP is warning that today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
YANGON – As Myanmar marks one year since the devastating earthquake last March, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warns that communities struggling to rebuild are now being hit by renewed hardship: the effects of the ongoing Middle East crisis on fuel, food, and fertilizer prices are pushing vulnerable families closer to hunger.
WINDHOEK, Namibia – The Government of the Republic of Namibia welcomed a contribution of 4,896 metric tons of rice worth USD 1.7 million from the Republic of Korea through the United Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP) OnDemand Service to support communities recovering from the devastating 2024–2025 drought.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a landmark Cooperation Arrangement at the Asia and the Pacific Food Systems Forum 2026, committing to work together on food systems transformation, emergency assistance, and nutrition-sensitive policies to address food insecurity and build resilience across the region.
KABUL – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun to rapidly mobilize a large-scale emergency response for communities in Afghanistan impacted by the conflict with Pakistan and is adapting quickly to keep life-saving aid moving despite violence in the region and shipping disruptions.
MONROVIA, Liberia – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a three-month emergency response providing immediate food and nutrition support to 11,500 people impacted by the Mpox outbreak in Liberia who are facing isolation and disrupted access to food.
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.
