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As of Wednesday morning, WFP had reached nearly 64,000 people in urgent need of food assistance, providing ready-to-eat food rations, family food packages and hot meals.

Deborah recalls watching half a dozen elderly men walking towards her home in Bukavu, the sprawling capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s South Kivu’s province.

On Tuesday, food distributions through WFP’s partner LibAid had already reached 2,000 people who had fled Derna and arrived in the city of Benghazi. On Wednesday, WFP was distributing food to about 700 flood-affected families in four locations of Derna city. “These devastating floods have struck in a country where a profound political crisis has already left so many in a desperate situation.

Most families crossing the border are arriving hungry, desperate and in need of immediate support. WFP continues to supply all arriving families with fortified biscuits and cash to buy food or other basic necessities.

It’s a week since Bashir Abdi, his wife and nine children fled to the Iftin camp for displaced people, outside the town of Beletweyne in central Somalia.  “I was forced to move by the flash floods.

Canada’s contribution will go towards supporting the most vulnerable families in Lebanon who are going through a daily struggle amidst one of the world’s worst financial crises. The contribution will also allow WFP to provide technical assistance to MoSA to boost social safety nets that have become critical to large segments of the society.

A total of 900 metric tonnes of rice will be distributed to 100,000 people (18,000 families) in 16 districts of Oudomxay, Luang Namtha, Sekong and Salavanh Provinces. “The food inflation rate has experienced a significant surge recently, with a 47 percent increase, the highest level since March 2000.