BANGKOK– At an official signing ceremony held today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Royal Thai Government confirmed its contribution of 1 million baht each to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The contributions will support each agency’s work to provide much needed assistance to refugees and forcibly displaced populations.
ANTANANARIVO – The World Food Programme (WFP) warmly welcomes an in-kind contribution of 10,000 metric tons of rice and a US$ 1 million cash contribution from the Republic of Korea (ROK), enabling WFP to enhance the lean season emergency food response to 548,000 vulnerable people, in the south and southeast of Madagascar, from October 2024 to April 2025.
APIA, SAMOA - The Samoa Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) jointly held a workshop today to mark the launch of a Cost of the Diet analysis in Samoa. The initiative aims to identify nutrient gaps and enhance decision-making to improve access to healthy, nutritious diets for the Samoan population, with a focus on the most vulnerable.
NUKU'ALOFA, TONGA – The Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday hosted a joint workshop on disaster risk financing aimed at providing guidance on planning and implementing strategic interventions to ensure effective disbursement and utilization of insurance policy payouts. This came following the recent renewal of Tonga’s insurance policy providing protection against the financial impacts of tropical cyclones.
BEIRUT – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has delivered emergency assistance to over half a million people in Lebanon since the escalation of the conflict began. The agency is drawing on contingency planning that included pre-positioning food supplies inside the country. WFP continues scaling up with the goal of reaching one million people. There are teams on the ground working around the clock to deliver urgent food assistance to affected communities across Lebanon.
LUSAKA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has expanded the distribution of food and commodity vouchers to 21,800 drought-affected people in the southern districts of Gwembe, Siavonga and Sinazongwe following a US$1 million contribution from the Republic of Korea.
Hunger is nearing levels that were last seen during the global food crisis sparked by the pandemic.
ROME —The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched its 2025 Global Outlook, calling for US$16.9 billion to address global food needs and the alarming gap between needs and resources.
LILONGWE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Adaptation Fund, has today commenced the distribution of MK 2.2 billion (approximately US$1.3 million) in insurance payouts to over 36,000 farming households in Malawi. These payouts aim to support farmers whose crops suffered damage due to climate-induced shocks during the 2023/2024 growing season.
WFP trucks arrive in famine-hit Zamzam camp in North Darfur; Over 700 trucks on the road to locations across Sudan
PORT SUDAN – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) today announced a surge in its operations across Sudan, part of a scale-up effort to reach millions of people in the country’s most needy and isolated conflict areas.
BRAZZAVILLE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received a US$4 million contribution from the United States to provide emergency food aid to 52,000 people and resume the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) in the Republic of Congo.
HARARE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of US$ 5.1 million from the Government of Japan to support 37,000 climate-affected smallholder farmers across five districts in Zimbabwe.
Kinshasa – There are 25.6 million people who continue to face crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report. Armed violence, continued conflict and soaring food prices are driving acute food insecurity affecting displaced people and returnees.
ROME – Multiple storms battering coastlines in the Caribbean and the Philippines serve as a reminder of the urgent need for decisive climate action to support communities facing the brunt of extreme weather, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today. This call to action comes as the world reflects on the outcomes of the soon-to-conclude UN Climate Change Conference, COP29.
Jerusalem – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a critical contribution of US$20 million from the Republic of Korea, enabling WFP to continue providing life-saving food assistance to families severely affected by the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip and those facing heightened food insecurity amid escalating violence and instability in the West Bank.
ACCRA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$ 3.6 million contribution (over 58.3 million Ghanaian cedis) from the United States, and the United Kingdom to provide emergency food and nutrition assistance to 70,000 drought-affected people in northern Ghana.
BANJUL – Findings from a comprehensive impact evaluation of the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSF) in the Gambia reveals that school meals enhance food security and dietary diversity, while improving mental well-being among Gambian children - especially girls.
RAMALLAH – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), in collaboration with the Palestinian Ministry of Labour, and with support from the European Union, is scaling up efforts to assist Palestinian workers from Gaza who were forcibly displaced to the West Bank following the events of 7 October 2023.
PORT-AU-PRINCE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced that its humanitarian flights will resume on 20 November after regulatory issues were resolved following a short interruption. The WFP-run United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) provides vital passenger and light-cargo transport within Haiti for the entire humanitarian community including local and international NGOs and UN entities.
Juba – Alarming new food security data from South Sudan shows that 57 per cent of the population will be acutely food insecure through the 2025 lean season with returnees fleeing the war in Sudan and young children facing some of the highest levels of hunger and malnutrition as economic pressures, climate extremes, and the effects of Sudan's war drive worsening hunger
BEIRUT— The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of US$2 million from the people and the Government of Japan to support conflict-affected families across Lebanon, including refugees, and help them meet their urgent food needs in this challenging time.
MANILA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a PHP 30 million (US$500,000) contribution from the Republic of Korea (ROK). These funds will provide critical cash assistance to people affected by severe tropical storm Kristine and other typhoons that have recently struck the Philippines.
KYIV, 14 November 2024 – Ministers and high-level representatives from across Europe gathered in Kyiv this week to attend the European Regional School Meals Summit, hosted by the Government of Ukraine, with the support of First Lady Olena Zelenska, and within the framework of the School Meals Coalition – a global network of over 100 national governments and 130 partners. The two-day summit, attended by over 20 governments representatives across multiple sectors, underscored the region’s dedication to a shared mission: ensuring that every child worldwide has access to nutritious meals by 2030.
PORT SUDAN/NAIROBI – Three UN World Food Programme convoys carrying essential food and nutrition assistance are on their way to Sudan’s Zamzam camp in North Darfur and Kadugli in South Kordofan for the first time in months. WFP is calling for the safe passage of these vital humanitarian aid convoys to areas that have been largely cut off from aid since the start of the conflict – especially to Zamzam where famine was confirmed in August.
KABUL – The Government of France has allocated 3 million euros (USD 3.3 million) from its Food Assistance Program (FAP), to support the World Food Programme’s school feeding and nutrition programs in Afghanistan - a country where an already crippling hunger crisis hits mothers and children the hardest.
