News releases

LUSAKA – This week, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a contribution from China through a South-South and Triangular cooperation COVID-19 opportunity fund. The contribution will be used to enhance the user experience of the Virtual Farmers Market mobile-based e-commerce application, known locally as Maano. The app, which virtually links farmers to buyers when downloaded to a mobile device, will be enhanced to provide smallholder farmers with vital agriculture support and rural e-commerce services, such as commodity transportation, insurance and market information.

ALGIERS – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of 350 metric tons of dates from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia worth US$ 723,000 to support Sahrawi refugees living in camps in Algeria.

MBABANE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed JPY 200,000,000.00 (US$1,831,670) from the Government of Japan to support 30,600 vulnerable Swazi households for the next six months.

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) donated USD 5.7 million to World Food Programme (WFP) for a project to support smallholder farmers in Sofala Province, central Mozambique.

MASERU- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a JPY 200 million (US$ 1.8 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 WFP-led United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) has resumed flights to Kabul, enabling humanitarian responders and much-needed relief items to reach desperate Afghans in multiple locations across the country.

Harare – On International day of South-South Cooperation (12 September), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) acknowledges the Global south’s important contribution to alleviate food insecurity and malnutrition in Zimbabwe. The Governments of Brazil, China, India and South Africa, have provided tangible transfer of information, resources and expertise to Zimbabwe over the past years, successfully administered through WFP, to support food security and nutrition in Zimbabwe.

GENEVA – The United Nations World Food Programme Executive Director, David Beasley, is urging the world to act now and step-up support for the people of Afghanistan, calling on donors to provide immediate and generous funding to boost humanitarian action in the country.

JUBA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will suspend food assistance for more than 100,000 displaced people in parts of South Sudan for three months starting October as part of a prioritization exercise driven by funding shortages this year

Windhoek, Namibia – The World Food Programme (WFP) and the Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare (MGEPESW) have launched a Cash-Based Transfer (CBT) programme in Onamatanga Village in Omusati Region following a generous contribution of €1 Million (N$17 610 019.00) from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO).

ADDIS ABABA –  As conflict spills across Northern Ethiopia, forcing 300,000 people from their homes and 1.7 million into hunger in Afar and Amhara provinces, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced an unprecedented funding gap of $US426 million across its operation in Ethiopia and appealed for funds to meet the needs of up to 12 million people this year.

BAGHDAD – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has expanded its resilience-building programme across Salah al-Din governorate north of Baghdad, to respond to growing concerns about the lower than usual rainfall in Iraq. This year has seen the second lowest rainfall in 40 years in the country.

COLOMBO – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is partnering with the Federation of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Sri Lanka (FCCISL) to hand over ownership of the Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SUN Business Network) in Sri Lanka. The handover will enable the SUN Business Network to scale up from its current member base of large private sector organizations to include Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs).

JUBA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is grateful for an additional contribution of €11.6 million from the European Union (EU) to provide emergency food assistance to 3.9 million people at risk of famine in South Sudan this year.

PORT-AU-PRINCE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is grateful for the generous contribution of USD 500,000 from the Republic of Korea to support relief efforts in the South of the Haiti battered by a deadly earthquake on 14 August.

BANJUL – The World Food Programme (WFP) started food distributions and cash transfers to support recovery of communities affected by a windstorm and flash floods in July. The support will help families meet their immediate food needs and replenish destroyed or lost food stocks.

TEHRAN – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a generous €2 million contribution from the Federal Republic of Germany in support of its longstanding assistance programme to vulnerable Afghan and Iraqi refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Seoul/Rome – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) received US$1.2 million from the Republic of Korea to provide humanitarian activities for food crisis in the following countries: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Madagascar, South Sudan and Burkina Faso.

30 August 2021 – The Government of Japan provided JPY 200 million (US$1.8 million) to the World Food Programme (WFP) in Mozambique to address food insecurity in communities affected by the ongoing violence and displacement of people in the Cabo Delgado province.

Bujumbura - Funding from the European Union (EU) is helping the World Food Programme (WFP) to predict climate shocks and implement a series of timely activities to improve the resilience of communities in Burundi affected by torrential rains.

New Delhi/Bhubaneshwar: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Department of School and Mass Education, Government of Odisha, have launched a training app aimed at thousands of Cook-cum-Helpers who play a critical role in preparing and providing hot-cooked meals to millions of school children under India’s Mid-day Meal scheme.