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In response to a formal request by the Government, WFP deployed a Mi-8 helicopter to deliver life-saving assistance to families in parts of Mandera, Wajir, Garissa and Tana River counties. “While we have allocated relief supplies to meet the needs of families affected by flooding, we face a serious challenge in delivering them because of access constraints,” said Hon.

Among those displaced, some families feel they have been delivered to safety after five years of living under siege while others yearn to go back to their homes despite the hardship.

Ahmed Ali Jana worked in water supplies before the war broke out in Somalia in 1991. One day in 1994, a grenade exploded in front of him and he lost his arms and one eye. It also killed his two children, totally changing the course of his life. As the war reached its peak, Ahmed saw almost the entire neighbourhood in Mogadishu abandoning their homes one by one.

Hurricane Dorian, a Category-5 storm, hit the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama on September 1, killing 70 people, leaving thousands homeless and causing billions of dollars in damages.

“WFP began working alongside the Nicaraguan authorities soon after it was announced that this tropical storm could become a hurricane that could impact the most vulnerable population in the country,” said Giorgia Testolin, WFP Representative in Nicaragua. “We joined forces to respond immediately, pre-positioning food for the people affected.

The Early Warning Analysis of Acute Food Insecurity Hotspots – issued today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) – describes a toxic combination of conflict, economic decline, climate extremes and the COVID-19 pandemic that is driving people further into the emergency phase of food insecurity. Parts of the population in the four hotspots

They buried five-year-old Mohamed in a shallow grave, in a place unknown, where his family had briefly stopped to rest. “We had no food, no water ... he was malnourished and exhausted and he didn’t survive,” says his mother, Mido. With four other children to care for and many days of travel ahead, the 25-year-old said a short goodbye and carried on walking.

Storms, droughts and floods of immense magnitude are worsening an unprecedented global food crisis. Across the world, the devastating effects of climate change are already hitting some of the planet’s poorest people, who depend on the land and predictable weather for their future.

Across the Horn of Africa – in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia – 22 million people currently face a severe hunger crisis after four consecutive failed rainy seasons.  Alarmingly, this figure is expected to increase, with a fifth poor rainy season forecast by the end of the year.  Disruptions to grain supplies and rising prices caused by the war in Ukraine have pushed mor

WFP helps contain Ebola by providing food to people potentially carrying the virus, and by providing crucial logistical services, including flights, which enable responders to reach new or remote outbreak areas quickly. The Emergency Committee convened by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General recently expressed deep concern about the recent increase in transmission in specific ar