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The Latest Breaking News from the World Food Programme

WFP Stops Delivering Food Parcels To Gaza Despite Famine Warning

The World Food Programme said that it was forced to pause deliveries after its aid convoys had endured "complete chaos and violence due to the collapse of civil order".

International Business Times UK · Feb 28, 2024

Gaza deaths near 30,000 as UN warns of ‘imminent’ famine

The death toll in the besieged Gaza Strip neared 30,000 on Wednesday, according to figures from the Hamas-run health ministry, as mediators worked to secure a truce that would allow more aid into the enclave. The World Food Program warned a day earlier that famine is "imminent" in northern Gaza.…

France 24 · Feb 28, 2024

Famine 'Imminent' In Northern Gaza, Warns WFP

Famine is "imminent" in northern Gaza, where no humanitarian group has been able to provide aid since January 23, the World Food Programme warned Tuesday, as Israel wages war on Palestinian militant group Hamas.

International Business Times · Feb 27, 2024

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Israeli Bombing Of Gaza Kills 125 Amid Cairo Truce Talks

Heavy Israeli bombardment of Gaza overnight killed at least 125 people, the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said Wednesday, against the backdrop of talks in Cairo aimed at reaching a truce.

International Business Times · Jan 24, 2024

Israel Strikes Key Gaza City As Public Mourns Slain Soldiers

Israel kept up its heavy assault on the "encircled" Gazan city of Khan Yunis following an outpouring of grief over the army's deadliest single day since ground operations in the territory began.

International Business Times · Jan 24, 2024

Flour for Gaza to be shipped through the Israeli port in Ashdod, the White House says

Humanitarian groups had called for Israel to open the port to help alleviate the food crisis. All of Gaza's 2.2 million residents are at imminent risk of famine, the U.N. warns.

WEKU · Jan 20, 2024

‘The damage is done’: Experts warn Gaza has reached the point of no return

UN officials warn damage done by Israel since Hamas’ deadly 7 October attacks is now ‘irreversible’, Maira Butt reports

The Independent UK · Dec 17, 2023

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Gaza residents face imminent risk of starvation, UN warns

Supplies of food and water ‘practically non-existent’ as Gaza plunged into blackouts thanks to fuel shortages. Israel says it has now agreed to let two fuel trucks a day into the territory

The Independent UK · Nov 17, 2023

Gaza: first aid deliveries cross into the strip as Israeli troops mass on the border

The population of the Gaza Strip remains cut off from basic supplies like water, food, and electricity since Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, ordered a “complete siege”. No aid has been able to reach Gaza and the first promised convoy has just been delayed further.

The Conversation · Oct 20, 2023

NZ joins international call for Gaza aid corridor

The incoming and outgoing New Zealand governments have come together to support aid for Israel and Palestine during the Gaza crisis.

AAP · Oct 17, 2023

UN's World Food Programme resumes food aid delivery in Ethiopia

The World Food Programme said Tuesday it had partially resumed distributing food aid in Ethiopia, after halting assistance four months ago over the diversion of supplies.

Radio France Internationale · Oct 11, 2023

Refugee photographers fight to raise awareness about plight of Rohingya in Bangladesh

A number of talented photographers who are also residents of the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in southeastern Bangladesh are using their art to raise awareness about the plight of their people, the Rohingya. They are currently trying to raise awareness about malnutrition in the camps – a…

France 24 · Aug 12, 2023

UN unable to feed 100,000 Haitians this month amid ‘catastrophic’ conditions

The World Food Programme’s Haiti response is only 16% funded with more than half of the country’s population regularly hungry

The Guardian - US · Jul 17, 2023

USAID says it is halting all food aid to Ethiopia amid diversions

Aid agency cites ‘a widespread and coordinated campaign’ to divert aid in Ethiopia, where 20 million people are in need.

Al Jazeera · Jun 8, 2023

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Dynamite News · Jun 4, 2023

Pakistan, Afghanistan among global food shortage 'hotspots': Report

Two United Nations bodies Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have foreseen acute food insecurity in Pakistan that is likely to further exacerbate in the coming months, if the economic and political crisis further worsens. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2023

Kissinger at 100: The ‘bloody, dreadful, filthy’ Angolan civil war – in pictures

The Guardian visited Angola in 2001 as the long civil war – aggravated by the interventions of Henry Kissinger – between Unita and the government wound down. The images show how the conflict affected the people and landscape around the city of Kuito in Bie province

Reuters · May 7, 2023

World Food Programme to suspend aid to Palestinians due to funding shortage

The World Food Programme (WFP) will suspend food aid to over 200,000 Palestinians from next month due to a "severe" shortage of funds, the group's senior official for the Palestinian territories said on Sunday.

Reuters · May 4, 2023

WFP says $13 million-14 million worth of food looted in Sudan

The World Food Programme (WFP) has estimated that $13 million to $14 million worth of food products destined to people in need in Sudan have been looted since fighting broke out last month, the WFP said on Thursday.

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Radio France Internationale · May 4, 2023

US, UN halt food aid to Ethiopia's Tigray over diverted shipments

USAID and the World Food Programme announced on Wednesday they were freezing food aid to the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia "until further notice", after finding shipments were diverted to local markets.

Al Jazeera · May 1, 2023

In Chad, pregnant Sudanese refugees give birth without shelter

Thousands of Sudanese displaced by infighting between the army and a powerful paramilitary group are trooping into Chad.

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2023

Sudan street battles threaten fragile ceasefire as Turkish plane shot

Concerns truce agreement may not hold despite three-day extension as unrest continues

Reuters · Mar 20, 2023

Aid funding shortfall could push Afghans into famine - WFP

A drop in donor funding could push parts of Afghanistan into famine this year, the World Food Programme said on Monday, adding that up to 9 million Afghans could be left without food aid after it had already had to slash rations.

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