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World Food Programme calls for more than $130m to reach displaced people and host communities on the brink

Lack of funds and obstacles on the ground lead to increasing hunger for millions of Yemenis

With four countries on the brink of catastrophe, Margot van der Velden urges the world to step up

Four voices from the World Food Programme’s Common Services on overcoming the challenges of keeping the humanitarian community up and running when the pandemic kicked off

World Food Programme resilience projects are empowering people affected by conflict and climate change in Africa

Pioneering staff reflect on 20 years of the UN Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Brindisi, Italy

Six stations broadcast practical advice to keep coronavirus at bay

A mother shares her fears as the country's hunger crisis deepens while looming threat of coronavirus adds extra layer

With hundreds of thousands displaced and hunger on the rise, fighting looks set to spill across the Gulf of Guinea

Agency puts expertise and infrastructure at the service of pandemic response and appeals for US$ 350 million as part of consolidated UN funding call

The conflict in Syria is entering its tenth year. Nahi, a humanitarian working for a World Food Programme partner organization in the northwest, describes the situation as close to one million people have been forced from their homes in the largest wave of displacement since December.

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Increasing violence is affecting communities and humanitarian efforts in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger

WFP Global Hotspots 2020 highlights countries and regions where rapid assistance and investment are most needed

Conflict and climate change are pushing hundreds of thousands of people out of their homes — and into hunger

The country is teetering on the brink as people struggle to find clean drinking water, medicines and nutritious food

An interview with WFP's programme policy officer Itaru Furuta

WFP's director of emergencies, Margot van der Velden, calls for urgent investment to stem a deepening disaster

Face to face with conflict, drought and floods as climate change exacerbates weather extremes

World Food Programme responds to mass displacement of people in northeast Syria

How one corner of Africa's Sahel region is safeguarding gains in resilience while ramping up emergency response

Regional hub allowed agency to deploy assessment team to Bahamas ahead of time

Communities explore ways to restore arid landscape with trees and vegetables

Forward-thinking makes families better equipped to deal with monsoons in Bangladesh

Storms and floods wreaked havoc across Mozambique in March, killing 1,200 people and uprooting families — now relief efforts are helping to restore hope