Port Sudan/Nairobi – The World Food Programme (WFP), with the support of the European Union (EU), has been able to provide emergency food assistance to nearly 6.4 million people, of which around 550,000 people received cash, since the conflict erupted in Sudan just over one year ago. This was in part made possible with a EUR €28 million contribution from the EU Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) in 2023. The aid agency also used this funding to help treat and prevent malnutrition for 260,000 children and pregnant or nursing women.
MANILA – In a significant step to strengthen emergency communications, the Philippines’ Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), today unveiled an upgraded fleet of Mobile Operations Vehicles for Emergencies (MOVE) at the University of the Philippines (UP) – Diliman National Science Complex Amphitheater, Quezon City. The collaboration aims to bridge communication gaps, ensuring robust connectivity and efficient coordination in crisis situations.
PORT SUDAN – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warns that time is running out to prevent starvation in Darfur as intensifying clashes in North Darfur’s capital El Fasher hinder efforts to deliver vital food assistance into the region.
FREETOWN – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received a generous contribution of US$1.4 million from the Government of Iceland to provide nutritious meals to 36,000 school children in 167 public schools in Bum, Imperri, Kpanda Kemo, Sittia, Sogbeni and Yawbeko chiefdoms, Bonthe district.
NEW DELHI – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in India and the Embassy of Norway in India today kicked off a symposia on women’s challenges and contribution to India’s agrarian economy, especially from a climate resilience perspective, to support the Government of India’s ongoing significant efforts to empower women farmers.
YAOUNDE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$ 1.2 million contribution from the Government of Japan to support 36,200 crisis-affected people in Cameroon.
CONAKRY- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a EUR 1.5 million contribution from France for the provision of food and nutrition support to women, children, and farmers in Beyla and Lola prefectures of the Forest Guinea region.
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Washington, DC (April 29, 2024)—United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Goodwill Ambassador and multi-platinum global recording artist Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye is allocating another $2 million from his XO Humanitarian Fund toward WFP’s humanitarian response efforts in Gaza. This support will provide over 1,500 metric tons of fortified wheat flour, which can make over 18 million loaves of bread that can help feed more than 157,000 Palestinians for one month.
ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes the announcement of supplemental emergency humanitarian assistance from the United States government which will be critical in preventing famine and saving millions of lives.
KAMPALA – The Government of the People’s Republic of China has provided funding to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for the provision of school meals to over 165,000 children in Karamoja region in Northeastern Uganda.
East Jerusalem – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed US$10 million from the Government of Japan to provide wheat flour for more than 520,000 internally displaced people in Gaza inside and outside shelters.
CAIRO – Yesterday, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Egypt and the European Commission’s Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI) launched a new partnership to empower refugees, people affected by crisis, and host communities in Egypt by improving their self-reliance and fostering social cohesion.
KAMPALA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$11 million from USAID, on behalf of the American people. This additional funding brings USAID’s total support for refugees in Uganda to nearly $83 million since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2023. The funding provides life-saving unconditional monthly general food assistance to over 1.3 million refugees across 13 settlements in Uganda.
LUSAKA - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and CGIAR, have renewed their partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), to strengthen food and nutrition security in Zambia as the country grapples with a widespread El Niño induced drought and the climate crisis.
DILI – Timor-Leste’s second round of Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) Acute Food Insecurity analysis published today reveals the fragility and deteriorating levels of food insecurity in twelve out of fourteen municipalities in Timor-Leste, amid the highest inflation rate in a decade and successive climate shocks and soaring food prices.
SANAA - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Yemen has received a new $4.85 million grant from Saudi Arabia through KSrelief to address moderate acute malnutrition among children under five and pregnant and breastfeeding women.
NAIROBI / RIYADH – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has today signed two agreements with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a total value of US$1.4 million to treat and prevent malnutrition across Sudan and South Sudan.
NAIROBI: The Kingdom of the Netherlands, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the Counties of Marsabit and Turkana have signed an agreement to sustainably improve the livelihoods, food security and nutrition of communities living along the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya.
KYIV/RIYADH – The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) contributed $10 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to support Ukrainians affected by the war with daily hot meals in 1,200 institutions across the country.
N’DJAMENA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of approximately US$ 7.6 million (JPY 1.1billion) from the Government of Japan to support the Chadian Government emergency response to crisis-affected communities in Chad.
PORT SUDAN – Sudan’s war has claimed thousands of lives, forced millions from their homes, and sparked economic turmoil across the region that is deepening the hunger crisis, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) as the conflict approaches its one-year mark.
DAKAR – Nearly 55 million people in West and Central Africa will struggle to feed themselves in the June-August 2024 lean season, according to the March 2024 Cadre Harmonisé food security analysis released by the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS).
Port-au-Prince – Amidst ongoing violence in Haiti, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has rapidly expanded its food assistance, reaching more than half a million people since the start of the current crisis in March this year. WFP is reaching vulnerable communities with food distributions including hot meals for people living in temporary shelters in conflict-affected Port-au-Prince, cash disbursements and school meals.
MANILA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Cindy McCain today called for strengthened partnerships in Asia and the Pacific, to increase climate resilience and financing for smallholder communities vulnerable to food insecurity. She was speaking at the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Asia and the Pacific Food Security Forum in the Philippines.
