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Almost a quarter of Mali's population suffers from moderate or acute food insecurity.

The project will target 17,000 individuals with a mix of refugees and host communities, women-headed households, and unemployed youth in the Provinces of Sila and Ouaddai to create productive household and community owned assets such as dykes, ponds, and dams that collect water from external micro or macro-catchments for irrigation, domestic and livestock uses. This contribution from Korea Inte

Gentille smiles proudly at her four-year-old son Silva, as they sit in front of her thatched-roof home.

“The agreement now signed reflects what has been the Government's effort in mobilizing resources to support measures to mitigate impacts in the face of the most diverse global crises that we are currently witnessing, with enormous repercussions on the country's development” said Dr.

“We are seeing the highest levels of moderate acute malnutrition ever recorded in Afghanistan.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is in a “race against time” to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan, its executive director David Beasley has warned.   A total 22.8 million people, more than half the population, face acute hunger as temperatures plummet below zero. “What’s happening in Afghanistan is just horrific,” said Beasley, who has just visited.

This contribution includes US$ 400,000 to Ethiopia for food and nutrition assistance in the northern civil war area, US$ 500,000 to Jordan for food assistance to Syrian refugees, US$ 1 million to Türkiye for food and non-food assistance to Syrian refugees as well as livelihood assistance to vulnerable refugees and host communities, and US$ 500,000 to Afghanistan to support families struck by

Zenebech Kahsay is relieved to watch her children play once again, their energy renewed at last by bread she’s baked after receiving a 15kg bag of wheat from the World Food Programme (WFP) at a food distribution in Tahtay Adyabo, in Ethiopia’s northern province of Tigray. “My children were dizzy with hunger,” explains Kahsay as she grinds dark brown grains of wheat with a pestle and mortar.

Global hunger is at record levels and rising, according to the latest figures from the UN. Up to 828 million people went hungry in 2021, the ‘State of Food and Nutrition in the World 2022’ (SOFI) report reveals, an increase of 46 million on the previous year and an increase of 150 million people since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study – published Wednesday (6 July) by the Foo