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WFP to allocate $5.4 billion for Lebanon over 3 years, caretaker PM says

The World Food Programme has agreed to allocate $5.4 billion in aid for Lebanon over the next three years, Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said, as the country's economic crisis keeps millions in poverty.

Reuters · Nov 21, 2022

Droughts, floods and storms: The people hit hardest by the climate crisis

As world leaders converge on Sharm el-Sheikh for UN climate conference Cop27, World Food Programme staff highlight some of the countries hit hardest

The Independent UK · Nov 12, 2022

Somalia: four lessons from past experience of dealing with famine

Since 1990 the world’s famines have been classified as small – with the glaring exceptions of Somalia in 1991-92 and 2010-12. Now the UN’s World Food Programme says that nearly seven million Somalis face not being able to find enough food in the last months of 2022.

The Conversation · Oct 26, 2022

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Haiti gang blockade is causing catastrophic hunger, U.N. officials say

Haitians are experiencing catastrophic hunger because of gangsters blockading a major fuel terminal, U.N. officials said on Friday, with more than 4 million facing acute food insecurity.

Reuters · Oct 14, 2022

Haiti looting caused loss of some $6 million in relief supplies, WFP says

Looting in Haiti this month led to the loss of at least $6 million of relief assistance including 2,000 tonnes of food, a World Food Programme official said on Monday, as the Caribbean nation struggles with civil unrest and chronic gang violence.

Reuters · Sep 26, 2022

U.N. food agency: debris from drone strike hit truck in northern Ethiopia

Debris from a drone strike in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region hit a World Food Programme truck carrying humanitarian aid and injured the driver, a WFP spokesperson said on Monday.

Reuters · Sep 26, 2022

‘There’s a path towards death that people travel’: how hunger destroys lives and communities

With malnutrition reaching record levels, we look at its devastating effects on the body and mind and the urgent need for aid to prevent the suffering

The Guardian - UK · Sep 21, 2022

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Food aid vessel leaves Ukraine for Yemen, WFP says

The second shipment of humanitarian food aid since Russia's invasion left Ukraine for Yemen on Tuesday, the World Food Programme said in a statement.

Reuters · Aug 30, 2022

Tigray war: ‘I can’t help my starving family’, says Ethiopian World Health Organisation boss

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns Tigrayan relatives are ‘completely sealed off’ by civil war

The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2022

People facing acute food insecurity reach 345 million worldwide - WFP

The number of people facing acute food insecurity worldwide has more than doubled to 345 million since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday.

Reuters · Aug 24, 2022

Putin’s war fuelling ‘catastrophic’ crisis putting 50 million people ‘one step from famine’

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has “put more people at risk of death” in dozens of developing countries where nearly 50 million people are now just “one step away from famine,” a minister warned on Friday.

Evening Standard · Aug 19, 2022

UN ship carrying Ukraine grain to Africa stuck in port

The Brave Commander was due to bring food aid to Ethiopia as part of efforts to help countries at risk of famine.

Al Jazeera · Aug 14, 2022

Nowhere to run: the plight of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia

Ethiopia has hosted large numbers of Eritrean refugees for years. Before the recent conflict, about 100,000 Eritrean refugees lived in camps in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region.

The Conversation · Aug 11, 2022

Women and children in Somalia undertake dangerous journeys to escape drought and conflict

Thirst and hunger are driving people to make perilous journeys on foot to reach safety, the World Food Programme’s Kirsty McFadden reports

The Independent UK · Aug 5, 2022

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Reuters · Jul 25, 2022

U.N. World Food Programme optimistic on Ukraine grain export deal

The World Food Programme (WFP) said it was optimistic about a U.N.-brokered deal to reopen Ukrainian ports for grain exports but warned the agreement alone will not solve the global food crisis even if it is implemented effectively.

Reuters · Jul 6, 2022

World hunger rising as U.N. agencies warn of "looming catastrophe"

World hunger levels rose again last year after soaring in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Ukraine war and climate change threatening starvation and mass migration on an "unprecedented scale" this year, according to U.N. agencies.

The Times of India · Jul 3, 2022

Community fridges take the cake in feeding Ahmedabad’s needy

AHMEDABAD: World over, more than 800 million people go to sleep hungry every day. Even the $6 billion demanded of billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos by the World Food Programme can only help feed 42 million people for just about a year. But why wait for the wealthy…

Reuters · Jun 27, 2022

WFP cuts Yemen food rations further due to funding gap, inflation

The World Food Programme said it has further reduced rations in Yemen, where millions face hunger, due to critical funding gaps, global inflation and knock-on effects of the Ukraine conflict.

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Reuters · Jun 24, 2022

G7 must act to help tackle global hunger crisis-German UN food agency

The Group of Seven wealthy countries must ramp up humanitarian aid to help tackle a global hunger crisis exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, a senior official of the United Nations' food agency in Germany was quoted as saying on Saturday.

The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2022

Fears grow for Afghanistan earthquake survivors left without shelter

First shipments of international aid arrive in country as officials say death toll has risen to 1,150

Reuters · Jun 17, 2022

One third of Sudanese facing acute food insecurity - WFP

More than a third of Sudan's population is currently facing acute food insecurity, the World Food Programme said on Thursday, with inadequate funds to cope.

France 24 · Jun 14, 2022

South Sudan: WFP to suspend some food assistance due to funding gaps

In tonight's edition: A desperate lack of funding has forced the World Food Programme to suspend some food aid in South Sudan just as the country needs it most. We speak to the WFP's acting country director, Adeyinka Badejo. Also, survivors of one of the most brutal extremist attacks in…

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2022

Millions at risk in South Sudan as Ukraine war forces slashing of aid

Drastic cuts to World Food Programme assistance will leave people ‘looking death in the face’ unless global donors offer support

ABC News · Jun 3, 2022

Ukraine marks 100 days of war as African Union appeals to Moscow for food relief

Some 1.7 billion people worldwide face increased poverty due to a grain blockade caused by the war in Ukraine, amid mass displacement of the country's population.

Al Jazeera · May 27, 2022

‘We don’t have food’: Africa’s growing humanitarian crisis

Leaders urge mobilisation to resolve a crisis that has left more than 280 million suffering from malnourishment.

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