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McCain, who has served since 2021 as the United States Ambassador to the three UN food and agriculture agencies in Rome, takes the helm of an organization which last year delivered food assistance to a record 158 million people around the world.

In addition to increasing the value of its food voucher, WFP will gradually distribute locally fortified rice to the Rohingya population, starting in 1 or 2 camps and eventually extending to all camps in Cox’s Bazar and in Bhasan Char Island.  “The year 2023 has been a tumultuous one for the Rohingya in Bangladesh, who lived through multiple fire outbreaks, cyclones, and, for the first tim

Samer AbdelJaber can often be seen pacing up and down the halls of his base in Jerusalem.

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

Price monitoring for food security in the Kyrgyz Republic is a monthly update aimed at providing timely information on domestic prices of staple food products and analysis of food security risks. The Monthly Price Monitoring Bulletin is supported by the Kyrgyz Ministry of Agriculture and National Statistics Committee with technical assistance from WFP.

Colleagues tell us Hepatitis A is the number one disease in Gaza. Diarrhoeal illness is also rife due to the lack of any kind of sanitation.

Since hostilities erupted last month in the city of Laascaanood, in the Sool region, Somalia, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced within Somalia and close to 100,000 are estimated to have crossed the border into Ethiopia to escape violence.  Most of the new arrivals in Ethiopia are women, children, older people and people with specific needs, who arrive with nothing, scared

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.

It is midday in Halbul, in northern South Sudan, and farmer Nyandeng Noon Agany is visibly exhausted as she walks home in the harsh dry season heat, after spending hours harvesting rice.

"We are privileged to collaborate with the UN World Food Programme, a global leader in the fight against hunger and the largest international ally of the Hapag Movement.