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A hunger emergency is looming on the border between South Sudan and Sudan as families fleeing fighting in Sudan continue to cross the border every day. New data gathered by WFP shows that among the nearly 300,000 people who have arrived in South Sudan in the last five months, one in five children are malnourished and 90 percent of families say they are going multiple days without eating.

Bhutan is currently experiencing a transition in nutrition and food consumption patterns, especially among schoolchildren and adolescents. One in three adolescent girls are anaemic and one in ten schoolchildren are overweight, a problem that is rapidly increasing.

This document is the first regional strategy document produced by Programme unit in RBP to bring together both Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation, two important key areas of WFP’s work globally.

The aircraft was carrying humanitarian cargo from Bor. The two crew members on board suffered injuries. They were treated at a local clinic and are in a stable condition. The accident was followed by a fire that spread to huts adjacent to the airstrip. Three people died on the ground and two others were injured. WFP is deeply saddened by this tragic loss of life.

On normal Friday afternoons, the dusty streets of Wad Madani, in east-central Sudan, are filled with the call to Muslim prayer.

The Swiss contribution will enable WFP to sustain its ongoing cash assistance for nearly 6,000 Sudanese living in Aswan, Cairo, and Alexandria for a year. "Through this timely and opportune assistance, we can reach people within a matter of minutes, providing them with cash to meet their essential needs through a network of over 140,000 retailers,” said WFP Representative and Country Director i

Years of conflict, displacement, and environmental shocks have led to chronic hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and the loss of many lives in the world’s youngest country.

With more than 6 million people uprooted from their homes and livelihoods, and 4.6 million cases of children requiring treatment for malnourishment country wide, this donation comes at a critical time.

The TOR notably presents the scope, objectives, key issues, stakeholders and users of the evaluation. It also describes the evaluation approach, team composition and organization.

In Southern Africa, the UN’s Humanitarian Air Service – which this year marks its 20th anniversary – is very simply “a lifeline”. “UNHAS is more than an air service, it is a lifeline,” says Mamadou Mbaye, Country Director for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Madagascar.  When fast, safe and reliable humanitarian access and aid delivery is called for, WFP-managed UNHAS can sidestep