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The first WFP food supplies destined for 13,000 people at risk of famine in Sudan’s Darfur have crossed the Adre border from Chad, after it was reopened by the Sudanese authorities following a six-month closure.

WFP is due to run out of food stocks of wheat flour as early as October and requires immediate upfront funds to support the millions of people depending on WFP to deliver food.

Battered by multiple crises in recent years, Haitians who survived the recent 7.2 magnitude earthquake are now dealing with crumbled homes, lost livelihoods and limited or no access to food

Highlights In August, WFP delivered food for 4.2 million people in 12 Syrian governorates.  Over 60,000 food rations were redirected to respond to emerging humanitarian needs in Homs, Hama, Aleppo and Dar'a.  Food supplies reached 818,000 vulnerable people in high-conflict areas through cross-border and cross-line operations.  The Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programme

During my visit, I have been profoundly impressed by the resilience of the people of Myanmar.

In Lebanon, WFP provides assistance to vulnerable Syrian refugees and Palestinian refugees from Syria with e-cards. E-cards are the principle assistance modality as local markets are capable of providing sufficient food. Beneficiaries use the e-cards like a debit card in over 400 WFP-contracted shops around Lebanon.

Traditionally, a time of generosity where food takes centre stage, Ramadan has become a huge burden on millions across the region who face high food prices that continue unabated while incomes remain stagnant.   “We get into Ramadan with the region with the worst food crisis in its recent history in the Gaza Strip,” says WFP regional director for Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern

The agreement was signed by Gordan Grlić Radman, Foreign Minister of Croatia, and Matthew Hollingworth, WFP Country Director in Ukraine, in the presence of First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy of Ukraine, Yuliia Svyrydenko. The €1 million contribution is Croatia’s largest ever donation to the UN World Food Programme.