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Famine seems to be the hardest word—an outcome no one working to end hunger wants, not least Margot van der Velden, Head of Emergencies at the World Food Programme (WFP). She is very concerned about the increasing number of hungry people in the world today. According to figures released in December, there are currently 151 million people facing acute hunger, including 31 million at sever

The new logistics centre, led by the World Food Programme (WFP) as the lead agency for common logistics services for both United Nations agencies and Non-Governmental Organizations, will support early action in countries neighbouring on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the epicentre of the current Ebola outbreak, to prevent the spread of the disease and respond if needed.

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.

Abdi Kadir Bilow struggles to push his wheelchair through the sandy lanes of the Dadaab refugee camp in a remote region of eastern Kenya. He is just starting a 2 km journey, to a World Food Programme distribution point one-and-a-half hours away. Abdi’s only source of food is WFP’s bimonthly distributions. Today, he is collecting sorghum, split peas, and vegetable oil.

Kisimba Emedi remembers waking to sounds of gunfire edging closer to her home in the southeastern village of Tundwa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “We knew we had no time to lose,” she says as she prepares fish for dinner for her children, whom she “grabbed … and ran into the forest” on that night of terror. Gunshots rang out and the adults were on edge, fearing that the small

  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.

“After the heavy rains wiped out all our crops, we only had enough to survive for a few days,” says Herlinda Caal, a smallholder farmer from a Q’uqechi’ community.

As schools in Venezuela are currently closed, WFP will provide take-home rations that include rice, lentils, salt and vegetable oil, prioritizing school children under the age of six in areas most affected by food insecurity.

The food security and malnutrition situation in Niger has deteriorated sharply, due to the combined effects of conflict — which has disrupted livelihoods and forced 300,000 people to flee their homes in the country — and recurrent climate shocks, compounded by the socio-economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and high food prices. “The Government of Japan is steadfast in its commitment to s