Port-au-Prince – Amidst ongoing violence in Haiti, the United Nations World Food Programme has rapidly expanded its food assistance, reaching more than half a million people since the start of the current crisis in March this year.
As we approach the 6-month mark in the conflict, famine is ever closer in the north of Gaza. Malnutrition among children is spreading at record pace, and one of three children below the age of two is now acutely malnourished or “wasted”. Some 70 percent of the population in the North is facing catastrophic hunger
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has managed to bring desperately needed food and nutrition supplies into Darfur, the first WFP assistance to reach the war-wracked region in months. Yet, the UN food agency warns that unless the people of Sudan receive a constant flow of aid via all possible humanitarian corridors the country’s hunger catastrophe will only worsen.
The escalation of military activity in Rafah, southern Gaza, has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, making life even harder for thousands of families who have already been displaced several times
The most recent El Niño event is one of the five strongest on record and has led to significant alterations in weather patterns around the world exacerbating the impacts of the global climate crisis, resulting in more frequent and intense droughts, floods and tropical cyclones.