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Fierce rivals by tradition, football clubs Roma and Lazio, of Italy's top-tier Seria A league, have found common cause: supporting the World Food Programme's Stop The Waste campaign. On Sunday, Lazio players sported blue shirts emblazoned with the organization's logo in support of WFP Italia. The drive, now in its third year, aims to raise awareness around how

 Jean-Martin Bauer got locked out of Haiti the last time he left the country.

Sadiya starts her day early by letting out her goats from her backyard barn at Bokolmayo refugee camp, a collection of makeshift houses in Ethiopia’s Somali region. Whistling cheerfully, she leads them first to a water point nearby, then farther away to find a good grazing spot amid the cracked land.

Spring kicks off tidings of new beginnings for many in the Northern Hemisphere. Perhaps it’s also a reminder of how fragile the seasons that have traditionally been taken for granted the world over have become. Summers spill into winters and winters spill into summers.

  COVID-19 has impacted transport systems like never before. The global connectedness we’ve come to rely on to move people and goods around the world ground to a halt as governments raced to stop its spread. WFP stepped up to help.

The motorboat ride takes less than ten minutes before the first sand island - or char in local Bengali - emerges from the riverbed of the Brahmaputra, one of the 25 rivers that flow through this vast and flat swathe of northwestern Bangladesh.

 The World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly expanding its food assistance support in Pakistan as the Government takes stock of floods which have killed nearly 1,000 people and displaced 33 million.Through its National Disaster Management Authority, the Government – which has declared a national emergency – is leading the response in coordinating assessments and directing humanitarian reli

The campaign kicked off with “empty” posts by celebrities and influencers in the Arab world and beyond. Top UN officials, supporters and staff also started sharing empty posts on Instagram feeds using hashtag #EmptyFeed throughout the month.

Under this strategic partnership, Dubai Holding will kick off the first joint campaign ‘A Meal for a Brighter Tomorrow’ this Ramadan up until Eid Al Adha, pledging to enable school meals to reach children in need.

“It is a win-win situation,” said WFP Country Director in Haiti, Pierre Honnorat.