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Download video material here: https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/h0hzPQa6z7 Download photos here: https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/OBwZxmxmph “We are working not only to save lives on an urgent basis, but also to contain the virus so that it doesn’t spread further,” said Susana Rico, WFP Emergency Coordinator in Beni.

“My day-to-day is never the same,” says Clara Silva, one eye on the relentless flow of emails popping up on her screen, the other on the glittering stretch of Indian Ocean outside her window.  As WFP Head of Office in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, Silva has to wear many hats – managerial, diplomatic, humanitarian.

In the Sahel and West Africa, 26 million people currently do not have sufficient food during the ongoing harvest season (October-December 2021) which should mark the start of the end of the lean season, according to a just-released Cadre Harmonisé (CH) report on food security.

Yemen faces a severe malnutrition crisis, particularly among women and children. With the world's highest malnutrition rate, 1.3 million pregnant and lactating women, and 2.2 million children under five urgently need treatment.

Speaking at the opening of the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit in Rome on 26 July, the World Food Programme (WFP)'s Executive Director, David Beasley, called for action to reach zero hunger. While the world has the expertise and the resources to end hunger, efforts and attention are being directed  somewhere else.

School-based programmes such as free meals, vaccinations and deworming can be game-changers for school-age children and adolescents, especially from poorer backgrounds, the report says.

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