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“People started running, so we ran,” says farmer Eliza Edward who lost her husband to massive floods triggered by cyclone Freddy that swept Malawi earlier this month. Eliza was forced to flee her home at the foot of Soche Hill, on the outskirts of the country’s commercial capital, Blantyre. After lashing other parts of Southern Africa last month, including Mozambique and Madagascar, Fred

Cameroon is a lower-middle-income country, ranking 151st out of 193 countries in the 2023/2024 Human Development Index.  Poverty levels have remained high due to weak economic growth against a faster population growth, combined with the rising cost of living.

 “WFP is grateful to the Government and people of Japan for this generous contribution, which comes at a critical time as the humanitarian situation at the border remains dire,” said WFP Representative and Country Director in Sudan Hameed Nuru. The contribution from the Government of Japan helps WFP provide monthly food rations including sorghum, lentils, oil and salt to refugees fleeing E

The agreement was signed by Gordan Grlić Radman, Foreign Minister of Croatia, and Matthew Hollingworth, WFP Country Director in Ukraine, in the presence of First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy of Ukraine, Yuliia Svyrydenko. The €1 million contribution is Croatia’s largest ever donation to the UN World Food Programme.

DRC’s humanitarian emergency is especially challenging, given its combination of widespread inter-ethnic conflict, large-scale internal displacement, a protracted Ebola epidemic, donor fatigue and huge gaps between funding levels and requirements.

The main purpose of the summary report is to promote learning from evaluations and draw evidence for collective reflections to inform the design and implementation decisions on the school feeding activities in Congo. 

It is the first to be completed under WFP's new Impact Evaluation Strategy. It aims to understand the impacts of women participating in food-assistance for assets (FFA) programming, and receiving a direct cash transfer in return, on food security, consumption, time use, intrahousehold agency, and measures of wellbeing.

Narrow alleys twist and turn down the slope snaking between the closely packed tin shacks. This maze of paths contains the hundreds of homes that make up Moroto Simitini.  The village is in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa, where the World Food Programme (WFP) is providing emergency cash to families who have lost incomes due to COVID-19.

“I’m the parent here, I’m responsible for everything,” says Egnetta, a woman in her sixties who heads a household of 20 in Bulawayo, Matabeleland, in the southwest of Zimbabwe.  Looking after her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren leaves little time for seeking paid employment. “It’s not an easy job for a single mother and a widow to be the breadwinner of such a big fam