“When you don’t have food to feed your children, when you don’t have money to buy medicines you are pushed into desperation”, said Beasley. “People don’t want to leave their homes, they are being forced to.”
Hunger in Central America has quadrupled over the past two years, with 8 million people now hungry.
Liberia has made significant development strides over the last decade, trying to reduce poverty and expand basic service delivery to its population, and transitioning from one democratically elected Government to another.
Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province is in the grips of a spiraling crisis as thousands of people flee their homes amidst violence, warns the United Nations World Food Programme.
Recent attacks in Palma have affected 50,000 people. Many have fled Palma to Pemba on boats making their perilous journey over choppy waters.
Since November 2017, WFP and the Food Security Sector have been conducting the Refugee influx Emergency Vulnerability Assessment (REVA) annually. The REVA aims to monitor food security situation and vulnerability levels of the Rohingya population living in the camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf sub-districts of Cox’s Bazar district and the adjacent host community potentially affected.
The day I visit Uzhhorod with a World Food Programme (WFP) assessment team, we are told that 11 trains, each carrying 2,000 passengers, are due from Kharkiv and Kyiv. We are on the border with Slovakia in the west of Ukraine.
Visiting the drought-stricken areas of Malawi, Ms. Reena Ghelani, the UN Climate Crisis Coordinator for El Niño / La Niña Response, Dr. Menghestab Haile and Dr.
Effective for five years, the agreement was signed in New Delhi between Elisabeth Faure, WFP Country Director in India and Manoj Ahuja, Agriculture Secretary, Government of India, in the presence of Honourable Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar.