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WFP Geneva Palais Briefing Note: Humanitarian Operations in northern Ethiopia

This is a summary of what was said by WFP Spokesperson Tomson Phiri – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.


Geneva – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) calls on all parties to the conflict in northern Ethiopia to respect humanitarian operations and assets and allow unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief to civilians in need.
Ethiopia

The United States supports WFP's assistance to vulnerable families in Iraq

BAGHDAD – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a timely and generous contribution of US$19.24 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (USAID-BHA). The funding will help provide life-saving assistance to 181,000 displaced Iraqis and 72,000 Syrian refugees in the form of cash transfers that support their immediate food needs.
Resilience Funding Partnerships Iraq United States of America
Photo: WFP/Gerardo Aguilar

Report: Stemming rising migration from Central America calls for tackling immediate needs and root causes

WASHINGTON DC/PANAMA: Poverty, food insecurity, climate shocks and violence pushed an estimated annual average of 378,000 Central Americans to migrate to the United States over the past five years, highlights a new report launched today. A high price is paid in human and economic costs, including an estimated $2.2 billion a year to travel regularly and irregularly.
Executive Director Refugees and migration

Promoting Health and Food Security in Rwanda by Reducing Aflatoxin in Crops

Kigali, Rwanda, November 19, 2021 — To help farmers and grain traders reduce the prevalence of aflatoxins in crops and grains in Rwanda, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Kigali-based agriculture start-up AflaSight, and research firm Vanguard Economics today launched two innovative pilot projects aimed at improving maize quality in the country.

Pakistan supporting WFP as it ramps up humanitarian operations in Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD – The Government of Pakistan is supporting United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) operations to address critical food shortages in Afghanistan as the country faces a rapidly escalating humanitarian crisis. According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) assessment, some 22.8 million people in Afghanistan face acute food insecurity, including 8.7 million at emergency level (IPC phase 4). Without immediate humanitarian action, the situation will quickly become a matter of life or death.

Covid-19 socio-economic shocks posing serious threat to food and nutrition security of the people of the Kyrgyz Republic

BISHKEK – The COVID-19 pandemic has posed serious threats to food security and nutrition of the poorest people in the Kyrgyz Republic, particularly those living in urban areas, according to a new study released by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) together with National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic (NSC).
Health emergencies Nutrition Food Security Kyrgyz Republic

WFP study provides first-ever look at the links between climate change and food security in the Philippines

MANILA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today unveiled its Climate Change and Food Security Analysis (CCFSA) study in the Philippines. This study analyzes the interconnectedness of climate change and food security in the country, particularly the threats and the opportunities it presents to food, nutrition, and livelihoods in rural and urban areas.
Climate Food Security Philippines

Food security crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could worsen in the coming months

UN agencies say further scaling up of assistance urgently needed as new report highlights widespread food insecurity

Rome - New findings indicate the food crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) shows little sign of abating, and could worsen in the coming months without scaled-up assistance, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warned today.
Food Security Emergencies Rome-based agencies Democratic Republic of the Congo
Actor and director Daniel Brühl was today appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations World Food Programme. Photo: Pascal Bünning

Daniel Brühl named Global Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations World Food Programme

ROME – Golden Globe-nominated actor and director Daniel Brühl was today appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). As conflict, climate change and the impact of the pandemic increase global food insecurity, Brühl joins the world’s largest humanitarian organization in its mission to reach a world with Zero Hunger.
Ambassadors and Celebrities Executive Director
"Entire villages in the Fangak region of South Sudan have been submerged due to record floods that have swept across the country for the third consecutive year, displacing hundreds of thousands of people. WFP is reaching 300,000 flood-affected people with food assistance across the country" - Credit: Marwa Awad

WFP in South Sudan reaches communities battered by third year of floods; builds roads and dykes to help people recover

JUBA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling up support for people impacted by the third consecutive year of record floods that are battering South Sudan. The inundation is threatening to reverse gains made in food security as floodwaters swallow up large swaths of farmland and pastures, destroy crops, and drown precious livestock and entire villages.
Climate Floods Development South Sudan
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