The Latest Breaking News from WFP

Almost 40% of Tigrayans suffer ‘extreme lack of food’, WFP warns

Agency sounds alarm about record 9 million people in need of food aid across northern Ethiopia’s 3 conflict-hit regions.

Al Jazeera · Jan 28, 2022

Nearly 40% of people in Ethiopia's Tigray lack adequate food - WFP

Fifteen months of war have left nearly 40% of the people in Ethiopia's Tigray region without enough food as aid groups struggle to reach cut-off areas, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.

Reuters · Jan 28, 2022

In freezing Afghanistan, aid workers rush to save millions

A flickering flame of paper, rags and random twigs is the only heat Gulnaz has to keep her 18-month-old son warm, barely visible beneath his icy blanket as she begs on a bitterly cold highway on the road to Kabul

The Independent UK · Jan 27, 2022