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Country’s worst drought in decades has left 4.4 million people acutely food insecure, with 1.2 million facing emergency hunger levels

After a year of unprecedented climate disasters, 2023 may not be much better — but there are also reasons for hope

The World Food Programe is working with governments on the frontlines of the region’s climate crisis as millions struggle to eat

Amid the country’s worst drought in decades, World Food Programme support offers a reprieve for farmers and herders

The Eastern African country's programme goes digital with support from WFP

Annual UN meetings backdropped by unprecedented hunger crisis

How World Food Programme support is saving and changing lives in the face of a colossal humanitarian challenge

World Food Programme support helps farmers to grow their own food

The World Food Programme urgently needs US$437 million to respond and save lives in the region over the next six months

Small payments from the World Food Programme are, for some, a doorway into business

Groundnuts and orange-fleshed sweet potatoes help change prospects in a World Food Programme collaboration with FAO

Drought is forcing livestock farmers to abandon traditional ways of life and find other ways to survive

Thanks to a recently introduced law on funding for people with disabilities, the World Food Programme is working with Wajir County authorities to support people like 8-year-old Ikran

An eyewitness account from the World Food Programme's Tomson Phiri in Kenya shows why governments and other donors must step up to avoid a deepening humanitarian catastrophe

Call for US$327 million to respond to immediate needs of 4.5 million people and help communities become more resilient to climate extremes

The World Food Programme lives and breathes food systems across its work in Eastern Africa

Warehouse roles mean families can put food on the table  

With the Tokyo 2020 Olympics coming to a close, we look at the story of Kenyan Olympic medalist Paul Tergat and the impact school meals had on his journey. 

Reduced rations make every day a struggle in the Dadaab camp — for Abdi, who provides for five children, it's even tougher

In a Q&A to mark food safety day, Caroline Mwendwa reveals experiences of shortages that inform her work as a WFP food technologist

A livelihoods project backed by the World Food Programme empowers people to bee independent

The World Food Programme and partners to reach 95,000 families in Nairobi and Mombasa’s informal urban settlements

World Food Programme-backed livelihoods programme enables Habiba to reach out to people struggling in her community

Voices from Cambodia, Egypt, El Salvador, Kenya and Madagascar on how the World Food Programme is changing lives

They escaped violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2017 — with newly acquired farming skills, their optimism is back