The Latest Breaking News from WFP

A project funded by Japan and facilitated by the World Food Programme is changing lives in a community hit by erratic weather linked to climate extremes

It's likely to be a very busy month for families as schools finish up for the summer soon

Several social welfare payments are paid out this month

World Food Programme funding crisis means aid will be cut to 2.5 million of 5.5 million people reliant on agency.

UN and US halt food assistance in the country, where 20 million people rely on aid, in order to investigate ‘diversion’ of supplies

The United Nations World Food Program said Friday that it is temporarily suspending food aid to Ethiopia because its supplies are being diverted, an announcement that came a day after the United States Agency for International Development said it was doing the same.

Prevented by Bangladeshi authorities from working, refugees in the Cox’s Bazar camp are dependent on food aid, which is being cut again and again. We cannot carry on like this, says the founder of Rohingya Women Development Forum

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:

Fighting has intensified in Khartoum as well as Darfur, despite US sanctions imposed in wake of truce collapse.

Aid workers in Sudan say fierce fighting, rampant looting and reams of red tape are hampering efforts to deliver vital humanitarian supplies to the millions of people who now rely on a relief effort since a conflict erupted in mid-April.

By August, the WFP will be forced to suspend operations in the West Bank and Gaza if no funding is received.