ROME, Italy – Pope Leo XIV visited the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Rome today, lending his voice to the unprecedented global hunger crisis. Speaking to WFP’s global teams and Executive Board, he paid tribute to the organization’s dedicated staff, many of whom serve on the frontlines of conflict, risking their lives daily to serve those in need.
Kathmandu, Nepal - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF), and World Food Program USA today announced a strategic partnership to scale up home-grown school feeding in Nepal. This builds on a successful pilot phase that demonstrated how locally sourced meals can improve nutrition, support children’s learning outcomes and strengthen local food systems.
KAMPALA, Uganda – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a EUR 3 million contribution from the European Union’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) to provide life-saving food assistance to 336,000 refugees in Uganda.
ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes the announcement of an USD 800 million direct contribution to WFP by the U.S. State Department. This critical funding will support WFP’s life-saving food and nutrition operations to reach more than 38 million of the most vulnerable across at least 37 countries.
Sudan, South Sudan, Yemen and Palestine remain hotspots of highest concern, with northeast Nigeria and Somalia joining the list as acute hunger risks deteriorate towards catastrophic levels
COPENHAGEN/ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced Chef Rasmus Munk — founder of award-winning restaurant Alchemist and the food innovation centre Spora — as its newest Goodwill Ambassador and first Goodwill Ambassador from the Nordics.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Environment, today kicked off the implementation phase of the Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator (AFCIA), marking a major step towards strengthening climate resilience and food security in Nepal.
Mogadishu, Somalia 8 June 2026 — The Federal Government of Somalia, the African Development Bank Group (Bank Group), the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS), and the World Food Programme (WFP) have launched a USD 11.8 million initiative to strengthen agricultural and pastoral systems in Somalia through climate resilience, sustainable land and water management, higher productivity, better market access, and stronger disaster preparedness.
CAIRO, Egypt – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is bringing issues of hunger and food security to cinema audiences across screens in Egypt through a new awareness campaign, “مش يومي” (“Not My Day”), screened ahead of movie showings nationwide.
ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced the appointment of Italian long-distance runner Nadia Battocletti as a WFP Goodwill Ambassador. Battocletti, an Olympic and World silver medalist, reigning 3,000m world indoor champion, and multiple European champion, will use her global platform to raise awareness of hunger and humanitarian crises worldwide, and to engage young people in the fight against hunger.
ROME, Italy – Three months after warning that the escalating Middle East crisis could push millions more people into hunger, new analysis from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) shows that the fallout from the conflict is already having deep and long-lasting effects in some of the world’s most vulnerable countries.
Nairobi / Port Sudan — The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have signed the USD 87 million Boosting Agrifood Systems Resilience in Sudan (BOOST) project, aiming to strengthen food systems and provide critical support to farmers in areas central to the country’s food supply.
CAIRO, Egypt – The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have marked the completion of a joint programme supporting refugees and Egyptian host communities through integrated programmes to improve nutrition, economic resilience and social cohesion.
Latest IPC analysis warns of deepening acute food insecurity levels, rising malnutrition risks and urgent threats to livelihoods through 2026 in Government-Controlled Areas.
ROME – Carl Skau has assumed the role of Acting Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP). Skau takes over from Executive Director Cindy McCain. He will head the organization temporarily until a new Executive Director is appointed.
BEIRUT, Lebanon – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is warning that nearly three months into the conflict, Lebanon faces a deepening humanitarian emergency with a critical combination of displacement and increased food insecurity. More than one million people remain displaced, while soaring prices, lost incomes and strained markets are pushing food further out of reach for vulnerable families.
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau — Children and vulnerable families in Guinea-Bissau are being pushed further into hunger and malnutrition as funding shortfalls force cuts to critical programmes during the June to August lean season, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today.
AKOBO, South Sudan - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has scaled-up its emergency response in Akobo East, South Sudan, delivering vital food and nutrition assistance to hundreds of thousands of people facing catastrophic hunger and malnutrition, even as insecurity, infrastructure damage and the onset of the rainy season continue to hamper operations.
LUSAKA, Zambia — The Government of Zambia, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), and the United Kingdom’s Met Office (UKMO) today launched the investment phase of the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF), a USD 3.6 million initiative to strengthen Zambia’s meteorological capabilities and generate reliable climate data to strengthen early warning systems, and boost anticipatory action for extreme weather shocks like droughts and floods.
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is urgently scaling up its emergency response in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), working with the Government, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners to help contain the Ebola outbreak before a health emergency transforms into a broader humanitarian catastrophe.
YANGON, Myanmar – A sharp rise in food and fuel prices, driven by the Middle East crisis, is placing new pressure on families across Myanmar as millions struggle to meet their basic needs. In response, the European Union (EU) has stepped forward with a timely EUR 8 million contribution to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to address deepening hunger across the country.
Food insecurity and malnutrition worsen across Somalia as the first famine risk since the 2022 crisis is confirmed amid the compounding effects of multiple shocks.
MOGADISHU, Somalia – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned today of a rapidly intensifying hunger emergency in Somalia that is pushing 6 million people – 31 percent of the population – into critical levels of food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) between April and June 2026. This now includes one of the worst malnutrition crises in the world impacting approximately 1.9 million children, of whom 493,000 face severe acute malnutrition, who are 12 times at higher risk of death compared to well-nourished children.
Conflict, displacement and restricted humanitarian access leave more than 825,000 children at risk of death from severe malnutrition in 2026
ROME/NEW YORK/PORT SUDAN, 15 May 2026 – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF warned today that nearly 19.5 million people – two out of every five people in Sudan - are currently facing crisis levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) across Sudan, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis.
This is a summary of what was said by the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Director of Emergencies and Response, Ross Smith, to whom quoted text may be attributed – at a press briefing in Geneva today.
