The Latest Breaking News from 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.

The United Nations has warned it will have to suspend life-saving humanitarian aid for half a million refugees and vulnerable people in Cameroon at the end of August unless it receives new emergency funding.

The attack is the second in the past three months to prevent a UN aid convoy from delivering to North Dafur.

Attacks come as Israeli-induced famine grips the besieged Strip amid calls for Israel to accept a mediated truce.

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

People in western Myanmar have been driven to scavenging for bamboo shoots, as humanitarian workers warn a wartime blockade and aid cutbacks led by Washington have caused hunger cases to surge.

The WFP says aid is being cut by 60 percent for the most vulnerable groups including pregnant women and disabled people.

Falling aid pallet crushes 15-year-old Muhannad Zakaria Eid, as more Palestinians, including children, starve to death.

Months after famine was declared in nearby displacement camps, the besieged Sudanese city of El-Fasher is now seeing starvation deaths of its own, with no food aid entering and the UN’s World Food Programme warning of worsening conditions for the 300,000 people still trapped inside.

North Darfur’s capital has been under RSF siege for more than a year with key roads blocked and supplies running out.

The World Food Program says Afghanistan is having its sharpest-ever surge of child malnutrition