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Munjama Toma, like most 11 year olds, loves nothing more than to play with her friends and go to school.Also like her friends, she has aspirations for her future, explaining: "I want to be a nurse when I grow up."Living with her mother, father and eight other siblings in rural Sierra Leone, she has been brought up around adults with little to no education, and a dependency on the land that leaves

Ram Bibi and her parents are among nearly more than 7,300 refugee families from Afghanistan and Iraq residing inside 20 settlements across Iran. Cash assistance from the World Food Programme(WFP) facilitated by donors such as the European Union enables people to buy the foods they need, while in-kind foods such as flour enable families to make food.  Ram Bibi's family moved to Iran

On the outskirts of Aweil town, some 876 km north-west of South Sudan's restive capital, Juba, nestled in the hinterland is the small village of Kuom. The place resembles an island of peace, allowing development partners to support longer-term work to improve communities' self-sufficiency and food security in areas not directly affected by the conflict.

To mark World Humanitarian Day on Monday 19 August, which this year focuses on #WomenHumanitarians, I meet one woman whose career led her back to her roots and to a discovery that only fuelled her desire to help others.Maria Altagracia Fulcar treasures many memories from her childhood in the Dominican Republic, despite it being spent in poverty.She remembers a farmer named Papalá, who would come a

Flora García is in something of a hurry when she arrives at a bank in the town of Yamaranguila, in La Paz province, Honduras, with her baby daughter, to withdraw her cash transfer. They join a long line of people.

Southern Africa is grappling with an unprecedented drought triggered by El Niño, a recurring climate phenomenon known for its capacity to exacerbate either dry or stormy weather patterns. 

“Since the start of this pandemic, WFP has called on leaders around the world to act and many have stepped up – including members of the Arab League,” said Beasley, speaking at the opening session of the 106th Ministerial Session of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the League of Arab States (LAS).

Ethiopia is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate crises and variability. Recurrent droughts are one of the major causes of livelihood disruptions in the country, especially in pastoral areas like the Somali Region, where extreme weather events lead to failure of livestock production, water shortages and prolonged periods of food insecurity.

Ethiopia is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate crises and variability. Recurrent droughts are one of the major causes of livelihood disruptions in the country, especially in pastoral areas like the Somali Region, where extreme weather events lead to failure of livestock production, water shortages and prolonged periods of food insecurity.

Corinne Fleischer describes Gaza as “a terrible situation getting worse.” Over the past two weeks, 21 World Food Programme (WFP) food distribution points have been closed under evacuation orders.