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.
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.
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.
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.
Islamabad - The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a US$ 9.8 million climate risk management initiative aimed at strengthening resilience to extreme climate in flood-prone districts in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, to be implemented by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in collaboration with the Government of Pakistan.
MANILA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in collaboration with WFP’s Innovation Accelerator, launched the first in-country innovation competition in search of local solutions to tackle food insecurity in the Philippines.
COLOMBO – To strengthen Sri Lanka’s preparedness for climate-related emergencies, the U.S. government, through the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), donated vital equipment to the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) via the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
MAPUTO – In partnership with the Government of Mozambique, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is implementing a US$ 3.3 million project, funded by the Government of Norway, to strengthen climate change-adaptive food systems and expand school feeding programmes in the provinces of Inhambane and Gaza, southern Mozambique.
MUNICH: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced a call for applications for its Climate Adaptation Innovation Accelerator Programme, supported by the Adaptation Fund. The US $10 million initiative, part of the Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator (AFCIA) partnership, will run for the next five years and invites applications from ventures with climate innovation solutions that are operational in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt, or those that can be scaled in these countries, to apply for a grant by 4 August 2024. The grants, up to US$ 200,000 each, will support locally driven ventures that are affordable, inclusive and tailored to specific regional challenges.
KINGSTOWN – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has kicked off distributions of emergency food assistance to people severely affected by Hurricane Beryl on the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada.
