News releases

KAMPALA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of EUR 3 million from the European Union (EU) to provide cash transfers for 780,000 refugees in Uganda. This funding is in addition to an earlier contribution of EUR 4.5 million.

As the number of refugees fleeing Ukraine approaches four million, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) launch the Football for Ukraine Emergency Appeal’.

GENEVA, LONDON, ROME – Six leading footballers, three of whom are former refugees, are fronting a joint appeal with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the UN World Food Programme (WFP), to raise funds to help refugees who have fled their homes and displaced people inside Ukraine.

ROME / SEOUL - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$ 1.5 million contribution from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea to emergency relief efforts in Ukraine.

LUANDA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of US$ 293,000 from the Government of Japan to support resilience building activities for refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) residing in Lunda Norte province.

Columbia, SC – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley will announce a major new fundraising drive aimed at billionaires, corporations, and individuals in response to the crisis in Ukraine, and the unprecedented impact on global food security.

Juba – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) strongly condemns the recent attack on a convoy carrying humanitarian supplies and again calls on the Government to bring the perpetrators of these attacks to justice and to safeguard the safety and security of humanitarian staff and assets.

ALGIERS – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a contribution of €2.4 million (US$2.7 million) from Spain to provide critical humanitarian assistance to Sahrawi refugees in Algeria.

SUVA, Fiji: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and The University of the South Pacific (USP) have joined forces to strengthen local market monitoring capacities in Fiji and Samoa.

LUSAKA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$650,000 contribution from the United States (through USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance), to provide cash assistance to around 18,500 refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) residing in the WFP-supported Mantapala Refugee Settlement in Zambia. This contribution will allow WFP to continue cash assistance for up to three months.

Khartoum – The combined effects of conflict, economic crisis, and poor harvests are significantly affecting people’s access to food and will likely double the number of people facing acute hunger in Sudan to more than 18 million people by September 2022, warns the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP).

SEOUL - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a KRW 1 billion (approximately US $ 823,000) contribution from Dunamu, a block chain and fintech company in the Republic of Korea, towards its emergency operations in Ukraine. The donation will be used to provide food assistance and relief to, both, people affected by the conflict in Ukraine and those who have fled to neighbouring countries.

KRAKOW – The United Nations World Food Programme has welcomed a US$14 million contribution from the Government of Japan to provide emergency food assistance to people affected by the conflict in Ukraine.

SIEM REAP – Today, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the United States Embassy, and Cambodia’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) celebrated the handover of the school feeding programme in 85 additional schools from WFP to the Cambodian Government.

ROME: Four United Nations agencies today announced the forthcoming launch of a new phase of a joint programme that aims to secure rural women’s livelihoods, rights and resilience to advance sustainable development.

SANA’A – Desperate levels of hunger in war-torn Yemen are set to become catastrophic as the Ukraine crisis pushes up food prices and a nearly US$ 900-million funding gap makes further cuts in food assistance ever more certain, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today.

AMMAN — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) yesterday awarded seed funding to five young women and men, to help them launch their start-ups that will positively impact food security in Jordan.

SANA’A, ADEN, ROME, NEW YORK, - Yemen’s already dire hunger crisis is teetering on the edge of outright catastrophe, with 17.4 million people now in need of food assistance and a growing portion of the population coping with emergency levels of hunger, UN agencies have warned.

ERBIL – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has helped provide a new solar power system for the Career Development Centre at the University of Sulaymaniyah. The solar energy provided now effectively meets the electricity gap during power cuts or shortages, enabling seamless support to youth in need.

Amman – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) received today from the Government of Japan a contribution of US$ 3 million to support Syrian refugees living in camps in Jordan.

COX’S BAZAR – The almost one million Rohingya refugees and their host community in Cox’s Bazar remain vulnerable and need continued support – almost five years since they were forced to flee their homes for safety, according to the latest Refugee Influx Emergency Vulnerability Assessment conducted by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and its partners.

JUBA – More than seventy percent of the South Sudanese population will struggle to survive the peak of the lean season this year as the country grapples with unprecedented levels of food insecurity caused by conflict, climate shocks, covid, and rising costs, warned the United Nations World Food Programme today.

DAKAR/ NAIROBI/ JOHANNESBURG – The socioeconomic situation of the urban poor in Sub-Saharan Africa has worsened following the COVID-19 pandemic, with millions of people facing acute food insecurity and malnutrition – a new report shows.

KABUL – As some of the schools get ready to reopen in March, the school feeding programme of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is getting a boost with a EUR €11 million contribution from the European Commission.

DILI – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) today welcomed a US$ 7.8 million donation from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). Through this generous contribution, WFP and WHO will work towards improving the health and nutritional status of school children in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports (MoEYS) and the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Timor-Leste.

YEREVAN – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Armenia today celebrated School Meals Day with its partners, the Social and Industrial Foodservice Institute (SIFI) and the School Feeding and Child Welfare Agency. The event at Abovyan school No 8 brought together school children of primary grades and their parents in Abovyan city of Kotayk province.