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“Practical approaches are crucial to address food security in the region,” says Menghestab Haile, WFP’s Regional Director in Southern Africa. “WFP is excited to bring together various experts to share their insights and help bring effective solutions in the fight against hunger.

  NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME, 5 November 2023 – For almost a month, the world has been watching the unfolding situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in shock and horror at the spiralling numbers of lives lost and torn apart.  In Israel, some 1,400 people have been killed and thousands have been injured, according to the Israeli authorities.

The longest drought in the Horn of Africa’s recorded history has left 4.4 million people in Kenya facing crisis levels of hunger or worse. Almost 1.5 million young children and women are acutely malnourished and nearly 3 million livestock have perished. “The hunger emergency in Kenya is far from over.

Under the prevalent conditions, proposals to unilaterally create “safe zones” in Gaza risk creating harm for civilians, including large-scale loss of life, and must be rejected. Without the right conditions, concentrating civilians in such zones in the context of active hostilities can raise the risk of attack and additional harm.

The conflict in South Sudan is still raging and people continue to flee into neighbouring countries. WFP photographer Marco Frattini and I travelled to northwestern Kenya to hear their stories. It took Martha 11 days to make the journey from her home in South Sudan to reach the safety of the Kakuma refugee camps in Kenya, where she can finally share a meal in peace with her seven children.

H.E. Mr. SAIGO Masamichi, Ambassador of Japan to Nepal, and Ms. Susan Jane Pearce, Representative and Country Director of WFP Nepal a.i. signed a grant contract in Kathmandu today. At the signing, H.E.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Hub for Eastern Africa partnered with the Technical University of Denmark’s DTU Skylab FoodLab, the Hult Prize Foundation and the Ministry of Danish Affairs to launch the first NextGen East African Innovators Programme. Nine teams of student innovators from Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda were selected out of 156 applicants to p

This article complements the Annual Partnership Consultation 2021, an event that WFP organizes annually to discuss strategic priorities and coordinated activities with its 800+ international and local NGOs partners “My first memories of the World Food Programme as a child are the cars driving through the streets of Kakuma refugee camp,” says Elijah Manyok Jok – vehicles emblazoned with

The UKaid contribution, through the British Embassy Kathmandu, comes at a time when monsoon floods, on top of the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, are disrupting livelihoods and exacerbating food insecurity and malnutrition for many Nepalis.   This funding is in addition to the £4.49 million (NPR 678 million) WFP received from the UK Government in December 2020 towards th