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The Latest Breaking News from the World Food Programme

Trump's man at the UN: Senate leader's son-in-law tapped to lead World Food Programme amid deepening global hunger crisis

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has accepted Luke Lindberg as the nominee for World Food Programme leadership. Lindberg, a senior US agricultural official, was recommended by Guterres and Qu Dongyu. He currently serves as the US Department of Agriculture's Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs. The World Food…

The Economic Times

Hydroponic Trays Aid Refugees: WFP pilot grows barley in 7 days; livestock health improves

In Algerian camps, Sahrawi refugees are utilizing hydroponics to cultivate barley fodder, a soil-free technique that consumes ninety percent less water compared to conventional farming. Within just a week, animals can enjoy fresh green feed, leading to better herd health. The World Food Programme is now applying this innovative approach…

The Times of India

From space rovers to hunger maps: How AI is reshaping humanitarian aid

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed for its potential threats to humanity. But humanitarian organisations are using it to predict hunger, map destruction and deliver aid without sending people into danger.

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Revealed: How Trump’s views have forced UN agencies to change how they address the climate crisis

SPECIAL REPORT: UN agencies are softening language on climate change, irrespective of soaring climate impacts the world over, Nick Ferris reports

The Independent UK

WFP welcomes €695m donation from US as it warns acute hunger to worsen in 13 hotspots

The WFP has said it wants to reach 110 million people in the most acute need around the world this year, for which it would require €11 billion.

Euronews

Cooper warns Hormuz blockade risks sending world ‘sleepwalking into food crisis’

Yvette Cooper told an aid conference in London that the global south was paying the biggest price of the war between Iran and the US and Israel.

Evening Standard

Exclusive: Inside Gaza's hunger crisis as aid falters and funding dries up

Community kitchens serving basic foodstuffs like lentils once a week are the last food source for hundreds of thousands in Gaza, as aid flows have dropped by 37% and only 10% of funding has been secured, Euronews learns on the ground in the Strip.

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Calls for humanitarian corridor through strait of Hormuz as Iran war hits vital aid

Soaring oil prices and the blockade are preventing food, fuel and medicine being delivered to millions of people in desperate need, say NGOs

The Guardian - UK

Hunger crisis is set to get worse in west and central Africa – why and what to do about it

Countries in west and central Africa are facing a food crisis with multiple causes. Estimates in late December 2025 suggested that 41.8 million people were already in crisis or worse in October-December 2025. The number was expected to rise to 52.8 million in June-August 2026. Researchers Kirui Oliver Kiptoo and…

The Conversation

Starmer accused of hypocrisy over sharp cuts to World Food Programme

UK reduces funding by a third despite pledges to tackle hunger, with critics warning the move will cost lives

The Guardian - UK

World Food Programme terminates all staff contracts in rebel-held Yemen, UN says

An estimated 4.8 million people remain internally displaced across Yemen, the WFP says, in what the UN says is one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

Euronews

How the climate crisis is changing an ancient way of life in Ethiopia

ON THE GROUND: Families have been raising livestock in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia for centuries, but Nick Ferris finds that these traditions are changing thanks to the impact of the climate crisis

The Independent UK

Sweden and Germany slash aid budgets to focus on Ukraine and defence spending

Echoing the dismantling of USAID, other countries are changing funding priorities and health and hunger programmes in Africa will lose out

The Guardian - UK

Food insecurity is on the rise: a look at the world’s ‘hunger hotspots’

On November 12 2025, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) published a joint report that raises alarm bells about the state of global food security. Both agencies warn of a “shrinking window to prevent millions more people from facing acute food insecurity”.

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European Commission calls on Israel to lift restrictions on aid deliveries to Gaza

Israel says the reduced amount of aid is in response to Hamas allegedly breaching the truce agreement by returning the bodies of deceased Israeli hostages too slowly.

The Independent UK

One third of children in parts of Kenya severely malnourised as aid cuts worsen crisis

Exclusive: Data from Save the Children reveals a devastating shortages of food in affecting tens of thousands of infants under the age of five

International Business Times

Homeless And Fearful, Afghan Quake Survivors Sleep In The Open

Families huddled hungry and homeless days after a deadly earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan, not daring to set foot in the few remaining buildings for fear an aftershock could bring them down.

International Business Times

Aid To Famine-struck Gaza Still 'Drop In The Ocean': WFP

The World Food Programme warned Tuesday that the aid Israel is allowing to enter Gaza remains a "drop in the ocean", days after famine was formally declared in the war-torn Palestinian territory.

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Al Jazeera

‘No more food’: In northern Nigeria, US funding cuts bite for aid groups

Organisations like the World Food Programme are scaling back aid or completely halting operations.

The Guardian - UK

Israel launches air and ground offensive on Deir al-Balah in central Gaza

Military targets key humanitarian hub that was relatively unscathed by war after ordering Palestinians to leave

The Independent UK

Desperate plea for Sudan aid from UK as civil war rages: ‘Why is nobody watching?’

IN FOCUS: Aida Elsayed, from the Sudanese Red Crescent Society, is in the UK to urge MPs not to forget what has become of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. She speaks to Rachel Schraer about the horrors her country is facing

The Guardian - UK

‘We live on bread and tea. I’ve wished for death’: Yemen’s forgotten refugees

War has intensified poverty and hunger as aid is cut, with many families living in makeshift camps barely surviving

International Business Times

UN Air Service Slashes Fleet By Nearly A Quarter

The UN's air service which flies humanitarian workers and cargo to hard-to-reach corners of the world has been forced to slash its global fleet by almost a quarter due to funding cuts, the World Food Programme (WFP) told AFP. WFP, which manages the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), received…

International Business Times

Thousands Storm Aid Warehouse In Gaza As Hunger Crisis Deepens

Thousands of desperate Palestinians stormed a United Nations warehouse in central Gaza on Wednesday, with the World Food Programme reporting two possible deaths in the tumult as Israel and the UN traded blame over the deepening hunger crisis.

International Business Times

Gaza Rescuers Say 13 Killed In Israeli Strike On School

Palestinian rescuers said an Israeli strike at dawn on Monday killed 13 people at a Gaza City school, as Israel presses ahead with what it has described as a renewed push to destroy Hamas.

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