Maseru– The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a JPY 200 million (US$ 1.27 Million) contribution by the Government of Japan to strengthen food assistance support to 50,000 pre-primary school children through the Government of Lesotho’s national school feeding programme.
KABUL – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan welcomes a contribution of £40 million (over US$50 million) from the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). With this funding, WFP will be able to support more than 1.2 million people with emergency food assistance. Furthermore, WFP plans to provide preventive malnutrition treatment for nearly 150,000 children and more than 140,000 pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. Finally, this funding will enable 77,000 food-insecure people to participate in asset creation projects that help communities become more productive and resilient to the impacts of the climate crisis.
Ramallah – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed the lifesaving contribution of JPY 400 million (US$ 2.5 million) to provide emergency food and nutrition assistance to severely food-insecure Palestinians affected by the ongoing war in Gaza and violence in the West Bank.
Bhubaneshwar: WFP and the Government of Odisha today launched India’s first around the clock grain dispensing machine, the 'Grain ATM,' also known as 'Annapurti' (Hindi for fulfiller of food), in the state capital Bhubaneshwar. Odisha has become the first state in India to provide access to the public distribution system beneficiaries 24 hours a day. The machine was inaugurated by Krushna Chandra Patra, Minister of Food Supplies, Consumer Welfare, Science and Technology of the Odisha Government, and Nozomi Hashimoto, Deputy Country Director for WFP in India.
JUBA - A cargo aircraft chartered by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and operated by a commercial operator caught fire after landing at Pieri airstrip in South Sudan’s Jonglei State on Thursday, 8 August.
MAPUTO - The Government of Japan has allocated JPY 300 million -approximately US$2 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to provide crucial humanitarian assistance to conflict-affected populations in northern Mozambique.
CAIRO – The Ministry of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation and the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP) are inviting start-ups with climate innovation solutions that are operational in Egypt to apply for a grant to support affordable, inclusive and high-impact innovations that enhance climate adaptation and food security.
BAGHDAD – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a generous contribution of US$2.2 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) to support internally displaced Iraqis, as well as Syrian refugees, living in camps in northern Iraq.
YANGON – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an emergency relief response to assist more than a hundred thousand people affected by ongoing floods in five states and regions in Myanmar.
DAKAR – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received a food aid contribution of 11,520 MT of rice from the Republic of Korea to meet the emergency food and nutrition needs of 81,600 Malian refugees and 287,000 school children across Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Sierra Leone.
WINDHOEK- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture (MoEAC) and the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil recently visited the Stampriet Combined School in the Hardap region of Namibia, to assess the progress made since the launch of the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP) and School-Based Integrated Food Systems Project in 2021.
NEW YORK – Thank you, Mr. President [His Excellency Mr. Michael Imran Kanu, PR of Sierra Leone], for this opportunity to brief the Council on the humanitarian disaster now unfolding in Sudan.
Baghdad, Iraq – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a generous contribution of $15 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Iraq to strengthen the capacities of local governments, address water scarcity, and enhance the resilience of rural and agricultural communities suffering from climate-related challenges across Iraq.
MOGADISHU – Concluding a three-day mission to Somalia where famine was averted in 2022, World Food Programme Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Carl Skau stressed that there is no time to rest, as needs in the country remain critically high.
Situation in Zamzam camp - home to more than 400,000 displaced people – has passed famine thresholds, according to Famine Review Committee.
ROME/NEW YORK/PORT SUDAN, 1 August 2024 – After more than 15 months of war in Sudan, a catastrophic combination of conflict, displacement and humanitarian access constraints has resulted in famine in a camp sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur Region.
Dushanbe – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$10 million contribution from the Government of the Republic of Korea, which will support activities aiming at improving sustainable agricultural production in Tajikistan.
ALGIERS – This month, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the European Union (EU) mark one year of the multi-annual partnership between the two organisations that helped WFP provide monthly food assistance to those most vulnerable Sahrawi refugees in Algeria.
KABUL – Over the past nine months, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan supported more than 260,000 vulnerable people or 37,000 families with emergency food assistance thanks to a contribution of US$3.2 million from the Afghanistan Humanitarian Trust Fund (AHTF) managed by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), and funded by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) of Saudi Arabia.
Chisinau – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of US$5 million from the Government of the Republic of Korea to support the agency’s refugee response in the Republic of Moldova.
DILI: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) marked its 25th anniversary of operations in Timor-Leste this week. The last 25 years have underscored WFP's evolution from providing emergency humanitarian assistance to fostering long-term development, nutrition, food security and social protection initiatives, in support of the government’s efforts to achieve Zero Hunger in Timor-Leste.
ROME - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes 12 million euros from the Government of Italy that will help provide desperately needed food supplies for families in Gaza who have been displaced multiple times and are struggling to survive in makeshift conditions and intense heat.
KYIV – The Government of Finland generously contributed €2 million to the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which will support WFP’s complementary cash assistance to pensioners living in regions near the frontline.
LUANDA - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a generous contribution of US$ 1.65 million from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF). The funding, part of a US$ 3 million allocation from CERF, will allow WFP to scale-up its humanitarian response to communities affected by the El Niño-fuelled drought in southern Angola.
1 in 11 people worldwide faced hunger in 2023, 1 in 5 in Africa
Rio de Janeiro – Around 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in eleven people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published today by five United Nations specialized agencies.
