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No fuel vessels have been allowed to berth at Yemen’s Al Hodeidah port since 3 January. Thirteen fuel vessels carrying over 350,000 metric tons of commercial fuel are currently being held off Yemen’s coast. A lack of fuel has left the population struggling to reach markets, access health facilities and other vital services.

“The world is shaken by compounding crises. The fallout of the war in Ukraine is adding to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that now enters its third year, while climate change and increased fragility and conflict pose persistent harm to people around the globe.

Already, WFP has reached more than 400,000 people with food assistance in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces and continues to expand its operations in support of the Government-led response across the country.

Under this agreement, WFP will receive US$20 million from Germany and the United Kingdom through the World Bank’s Global Shield Financing Facility.

Food fortification is the addition of important micronutrients to foods, like rice, to enhance its nutritional value safely and cost-effectively. While the fortification of salt, fish sauce, and soy sauce with iodine and/or folate has been practiced for a number of years in Cambodia, rice fortification is still relatively new to the country.

The application developed together by WFP and the Government of Odisha is being piloted in the Kamakhyanagar Block of Dhenkanal and will be scaled across the state of Odisha. Launching the FoSafMDM app, today at the virtual event, Principal Secretary of School and Mass Education Department, Government of Odisha, Satyabrata Sahu said: “This application and the resources it makes available will e

With half of Lebanese people and almost the entire Syrian refugee population classified as living in deep poverty, WFP continues to scale up its assistance to reach 1.4 million people in the country with food and cash support. “The Beirut Port Explosion is not just a memory of something that happened a year ago.

“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.

“There is only one way to describe what I saw today: apocalyptic. Entire neighborhoods have been flattened; homes destroyed, schools and shops closed; lives torn apart. The scale of devastation here is truly incomprehensible,” said Beasley. The Executive Director visited Antakya, which suffered significant loss of life and massive destruction.

Canada’s contribution will go towards supporting the most vulnerable families in Lebanon who are going through a daily struggle amidst one of the world’s worst financial crises. The contribution will also allow WFP to provide technical assistance to MoSA to boost social safety nets that have become critical to large segments of the society.