More than 50 trucks carrying an estimated 4,800 metric tons of World Food Programme (WFP) food and nutrition assistance – enough for around 500,000 people – are stuck in various locations across Sudan, unable to move towards their final destinations due to flooded and impassable roads.The rainy season is exacerbating the already devastating situation in Sudan, as floods force more people fro
Liberia has made significant development strides over the last decade, trying to reduce poverty and expand basic service delivery to its population, and transitioning from one democratically elected Government to another.
Despite operational and security difficulties, WFP and its partners distributed food assistance last week to nearly 30,000 in Mazraq camps for internally displaced people and Kharaz camp for refugees.
All UN international staff has been temporarily evacuated from Yemen.
Highlights
• WFP is currently facing a very critical resource and food
shortfall and is urgently seeking US$ 40 million for its programme
implementation in 2014. The food shortfall is occurring
ahead of the winter season, making it difficult for
WFP to pre-position food for life-saving activities in districts
that are difficult to access during winter.
In Burundi’s southern Rumonge province, Amina Hakizimana escaped the worst of heavy flooding that battered her village late last year, thanks to early warning messages and World Food Programme (WFP) cash allowing her to reinforce her home.
More than 2,000 kilometres away in Southern Africa, WFP provided drought-tolerant seeds, fertiliser and boreholes to Zimbabwean farmers like Ledina
The floods hit West Africa as world leaders prepare to meet on the climate crisis at COP27 in Egypt and highlight the urgent need to help communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis adapt, expand solutions that address loss and damage incurred during climate-related disasters, and invest in climate action in fragile contexts.
“Families in West Africa have already been pushed to the limi
Between 2018-2022, the integrated resilience programme reached nearly 610,000 beneficiaries in 262 villages across 14 regions in the Sahel, benefitting from climate-smart asset creation activities, school meals, nutrition, and smallholder market support.
WFP requires US$161 million immediately to avert a suspension of its refugee assistance programme over the next six months and provide life-saving assistance to crisis-affected communities in Chad including 519,000 Sudanese and Central African refugees.
Refugee communities in Chad already face severe malnutrition levels, with some areas seeing acute malnutrition rates of over 19% and chronic ma