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The situation in Sudan is dire.

Since 2018, WFP has worked closely with national governments and partners on an integrated resilience programme in the Sahel countries including Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger.

The visit underscores substantial investments in the country from the Governments of France and Germany and their ongoing partnership with the Government of Lao PDR and WFP, particularly focusing on women's empowerment amid deteriorating food security conditions.

The UN food agency is scaling up to provide life-saving food and nutrition assistance to an additional 5 million people by the end of this year, doubling the number of people WFP had planned to support at the start of 2024.

NAIROBI/GENEVA: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes the news that the Adre border crossing from Chad into Sudan will be opened, as the aid agency is in a race against time to save lives in war-torn Sudan.

 Sporting his iconic pirate hat, 58-year-old tour guide Coris Dember – better known as Captain Harris to his fans – has long been a colorful fixture among local residents and foreign visitors in tiny Union Island where he lives.“I wanted to be a pirate so the guests could have a laugh,” says Dember of his boat tours around his native St Vincent and the Grenadines - themed after the swashbuckl

The Global Alliance aims to better align domestic and international support to help countries build and implement programmes and policy instruments that reduce hunger and poverty.WFP was invited by the Brazilian G20 Presidency to take part in the G20 Task Force which created the founding documents of the Global Alliance.

This appeal follows the release of the WFP-FAO Hunger Hotspots report which warns that South Sudan is a country of highest concern where humanitarian action is essential to prevent starvation and death.WFP currently has no food supplies in South Sudan to preposition for next year’s humanitarian response and needs US$404 million to frontload assistance.