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

World Food Programme (2023). Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa – Agile Regional Procurement.       Annual Country Reports Available at: Annual Country Reports 2023 | World Food Programme (wfp.org)

The number of people WFP will target as part of the programme could expand to 12 million people if adequate funding allows. But dwindling resources  available for humanitarian operations means that despite near-record level needs, WFP has been forced to assist less people than originally planned.

WFP will provide supplementary feeding and nutrition services to 14,000 children under two, and pregnant women and nursing mothers for the treatment and prevention of moderate acute malnutrition.

As world nations gathered in the United Arab Emirates for COP28 to evaluate climate goals and hammer out solutions for methane pollution, fossil fuels and funding shortfalls in climate finance, the World Food Programme (WFP) and partners remained hard at work helping millions of people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) cope with the region’s climate emergency. MENA, where climate disas

  Without the ability to produce or import food, the entire population of Gaza relies on aid to survive. But humanitarian aid alone cannot meet the essential needs of the Gaza people.

South Sudan is facing the highest levels of food insecurity since the country declared independence ten years ago. A hunger crisis looms where 60 percent (7.24 million) of its population is increasingly hungry due to chronic sporadic violence, extreme weather patterns and the economic impact of COVID-19. The future of South Sudan depends on real peace and stability.

The publication "Ensuring Sustainable Financing of School Meals in West Africa" explores the importance of Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programmes, which provide nutritious, locally-sourced meals to schoolchildren. These programmes support local economies and enhance children's education and health.

Sudan is sliding into catastrophe, with famine conditions recorded in the Zamzam camp for displaced people near the conflict-riven town of El Fasher in North Darfur.

This report is part of a pilot project and research in Southern Iraq in which the Iraq CO is field-testing theories of change on how WFP can contribute to peace or social cohesion in vulnerable and food insecure communities via adaptive livelihoods and resilience programming. The conflict analysis is aimed to provide WFP with an understanding of how shocks and stressors connected to lack of liv