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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

As hunger peaks in the East African country, how much do you know about the continuing crisis?

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are investigating how WFP's activities contribute to improving the prospects for peace in the world.

Nearly 700,000 people at risk from second tropical storm to pummel Mozambique in just over a month

The sounds of lives being saved in Mozambique

Veteran World Food Programme (WFP) communications officer describes aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique

US$ 140 million needed as World Food Programme (WFP) steps up assistance in Mozambique

As the scale of the devastation triggered by Cyclone Idai in and around the city of Beira becomes clear, the World Food Programme (WFP) is stepping up efforts

This is what it is like to work in humanitarian crises, one aid worker point-of-view at a time

A year ago this week, hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya, long established in Myanmar’s Rakhine state but never granted citizenship…

This is the Rohingya response, one year on

The World Food Programme (WFP)'s Yemen Country Director Stephen Anderson reflects on the crisis gripping Yemen. Here is what he saw on his trip to Hodeidah.

Cash transfers enable WFP to give faster support to people people in need