News releases

DUSHANBE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today held a ceremony to hand over to the Government of Tajikistan more than 180 tons of vegetable oil purchased with funds from the Russian Federation. This is the first batch of a total of 300 tons of vegetable oil to cover the needs of its National School Feeding Programme.

COLOMBO – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) are supporting the Government of Sri Lanka with funding worth USD 118,000 (LKR 22 million) to provide vegetable seed packets to rural farming communities.

Colombo - Norwegian Ambassador, H.E. Trine Jøranli Eskedal and Deputy Head of Mission, Hilde Berg-Hansen, call on WFP Sri Lanka Country Director, Brenda Barton, for a joint celebration of WFP being award-ed the Nobel Peace Prize

MAPUTO – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of EUR 2.2 million (USD 2.60 million) from Ireland for its support to the internally displaced people (IDPs) from Cabo Delgado in Northern Mozambique.

CAIRO – The Ministry of Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates Affairs (MOEEA) and the World Food Programme (WFP) launched today the e-learning platform, ‘Bedaya Digital,’ under the presidential initiative ‘Life-Saving Boats” that aims at raising awareness on the dangers of illegal immigration.

CAIRO – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Goodwill Ambassador and Arab actor and producer Hend Sabry released today a video reflecting on her work with the UN humanitarian organization over the past ten years. The video comes only two days before WFP accepts the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December in a virtual ceremony.

Jerusalem – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a €400,000 contribution from Spain to provide much-needed food assistance to more than 34,000 vulnerable Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, most of them women and children.

Rome – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is honoured to accept the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize on December 10 at 1 p.m. (CET), in a ceremony that recognizes our role in fighting hunger and fostering peace in conflict-affected areas.

LILONGWE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received a £4.5 million contribution from the Government of the United Kingdom to provide cash assistance to people facing severe hunger in Malawi.

KATHMANDU - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of £4.49 million (equivalent to US$5.75 million or 678 million Nepali Rupees) from the United Kingdom to help some of Nepal’s most vulnerable people cope with the COVID-19 pandemic and provide food security and nutrition recovery support for their families.

MAPUTO – The World Food Programme’s (WFP) Special Advisor on Mother and Child Health and Nutrition, Her Royal Highness Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan, reaffirmed the crucial role of gender equality in fighting malnutrition, as she wrapped up a week-long trip to Mozambique.

Levels of hunger reach record levels, requiring urgent action

SANA’A/ROME/NEW YORK – The window to prevent famine in Yemen is narrowing as new figures reveal record highs of acute food insecurity in the country, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF warned today.

The United Nations calls for the targeting of new policies and investments in the lagging territories of Latin America and the Caribbean.

December 2, 2020, Santiago de Chile - A new United Nations report shows the territorial inequality of malnutrition in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

ANTANANARIVO – Southern Madagascar is in the grip of a humanitarian catastrophe, with 1.5 million people—half the region’s population—needing immediate emergency food assistance, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today. Three straight years of drought have wiped out harvests and hampered people's access to food and COVID-19 is compounding their suffering.

BAGHDAD – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has gladly received a generous contribution of US$16.8 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/BHA). It will directly support food assistance for displaced and refugee families, and the digitalisation of the national Public Distribution System (PDS) for food rations.

BANGUI – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$ 2.7 million (Yen 300 million) from the Government of Japan to provide food assistance to vulnerable people including women and children affected by armed conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Central African Republic (C.A.R).

Kihei, Hawaii/Bangkok, Thailand—The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) have joined forces to help countries in Asia and the Pacific prepare for disasters and respond faster to emergencies.

WASHINGTON – As classrooms around the developing world begin to re-open, the U.N. World Food Programme is receiving US$119 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide school meals in five countries in Asia and Africa.

DUBAI/ROME – As a humanitarian crisis builds on the Ethiopia-Sudan border, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$4.5 million from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to provide life-saving food assistance to refugees fleeing escalating violence in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

KABUL/LONDON– The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of £15 million (US$20 million) from the United Kingdom towards its response to the COVID-19 pandemic and to help families in Afghanistan who are facing food shortages get through winter.

Yerevan, ARMENIA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government of Republic of Armenia (GoA) will jointly provide take-home rations for around 100,000 primary children while school canteens remain closed as part of the COVID-19 pandemic safety regulations.