The Latest Breaking News from World Food Programme

UN food agency to cut aid to 500,000 people in Gaza as funding dries up

Families who keep their support will get smaller rations and less cash, even though two-thirds of the territory’s population still needs help to survive.

Euronews · Oct 19

Cuts force World Food Programme to end support for half a million Palestinians in Gaza

Two-thirds of population face crisis levels of food insecurity and 200,000 people are in danger of famine

The Guardian - UK · Oct 19

WFP Slashes Gaza Food Aid: UN agency cuts support for 500,000 people; warns it needs $450 million

The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced major cuts to food assistance in Gaza due to funding shortages, reducing the number of people it supports from 1.6 million to 1.1 million as winter approaches and families continue to struggle with hunger.

The Times of India · Oct 19

Pope Leo slams world leaders who ‘feed’ wars instead of the hungry

The pontiff said global priorities are ‘badly skewed’ on a visit to the World Food Programme headquarters

The Independent UK · Jun 22

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 · Jun 17

US-Israel war on Iran driving historic levels of global hunger, UN says

Conflict and cuts in funding have left World Food Programme ‘taking from the hungry to feed the starving’

The Guardian - UK · May 27

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 · May 19

Cash transfers make aid more efficient in era of cuts, report finds

Putting cash in the hands of people in need can enable up to 38 per cent more aid to actually reach people in need, the report says – coming at a time when aid funding per person in need has by fallen 35 per cent in the last two years

The Independent UK · May 17

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.

Euronews · May 15

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 · Apr 29