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The World Food Programme is lending its emergency expertise to support response efforts underway in the Bahamas, which is reeling from the impact of Hurricane Dorian, the islands’ worst-ever hurricane. WFP has distributed over 1,500 ready to eat meals, with food also reaching people affected in the hard-to-reach Little Abaco. The assessment teams continue to reach isolated areas.

1 in 3 Afghans – 14 million people – are hungry today while 2 million children are malnourished. With drought, pandemic, and conflict, the food security situation will continue to worsen; and a great tide of hunger is soon arriving.

Job losses, lack of cash and soaring prices are creating a new class of hungry in Afghanistan, WFP has warned today. For the first time, urban residents are suffering from food insecurity at similar rates to rural communities, which have been ravaged by drought twice in the past three years.

The attacks began on the evening of 28 December and looting continued into the morning of 30 December. More than 5,000 metric tons of food appear to have been taken, with hundreds of looters also dismantling warehouse structures. “WFP is outraged by these senseless attacks and condemns the continued looting of assistance and the destruction of its assets in the strongest possible terms.

WFP has been responding to growing food needs in Chad, but funding shortfalls mean that food assistance for refugees and internally displaced people will come to a complete halt this month if no additional funds are received.

Funding shortfalls had already forced WFP to cut rations for refugees to 50 percent in the Far North, Adamawa, East and North regions of Cameroon and to distribute incomplete food baskets since end 2023, missing some items such as pulses, vegetable oil and salt.

In 2022, with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency  (SIDA),  WFP introduced liquid petroleum gas cooking in humanitarian settings in Eastern Chad. This factsheet outlines findings and implications of the project for improving the resilience of communities.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is at the forefront of the United Nations system in sharing information with its member states and the general public, and is committed to demonstrating effectiveness and efficiency.

If you are looking for Dimitris Karakostis, chances are you’ll find him behind a computer, on top of a mountain or in the old markets of Damascus looking at a map. For the past year he has worked to establish the GIS team for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Syria, where he uses maps and geospatial technologies to see the country through a new and innovative lens.