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In what was once a classroom, 13-year-old Ahmed sits in front of a blank chalkboard. He has not attended school for months.

A small white UNHAS Dash 8 airplane taxis down the rough tarmac of tiny Beni airport in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province, raising a cloud of dust on a sunny morning – along with hopes for this conflict-torn region. This is not just a routine flight. It is a lifeline.

As the chilly winter sun rises, their red cheeks burned by the frozen air, Hamida and her friends skip merrily on the way to school against the majestic backdrop of mountains and a vast lake – the Nurek reservoir. The dawn mist slowly clears in the village of Chashma, perched high up a valley in southeast Tajikistan, as the laughter and bickering of children is heard in the schoolyard.&nbsp

 A map of soil moisture levels – from NASA’s Earth Observatory – makes Southern Africa look like the lung of a person in need of urgent medical care. Red blotches mark concentrations of drought caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon – a slow-onset wrecker that arrived in July, leaving parched fields and a rise in ‘acute’ hunger in its wake.The solution is simple.

This appeal follows the release of the WFP-FAO Hunger Hotspots report which warns that South Sudan is a country of highest concern where humanitarian action is essential to prevent starvation and death.WFP currently has no food supplies in South Sudan to preposition for next year’s humanitarian response and needs US$404 million to frontload assistance.

On 11 September 2018, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) jointly published the latest report on The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World. Here are the report's key messages

“India has successfully promoted millets for climate resilience, food security, and small farmers' livelihoods, particularly women, during the International Year of Millets 2023.

The agreement was signed by WFP Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau and H.E. Dr. Abdullah Al Rabeeah, Adviser to the Royal Court and Supervisor General of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief), in Jeddah today. US$15 million will be allocated to sustain emergency food assistance for vulnerable families across Yemen.

The OPEC Fund Director-General Abdulhamid Alkhalifa met with WFP on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai and expressed the OPEC Fund’s support in combating global food insecurity and hunger.

2023 was the hottest year ever recorded. A natural El Niño cycle added to the rising trend of global warming, resulting in more frequent and intense droughts, floods, and tropical cyclones. To mitigate these risks, WFP activated Anticipatory Actions (AAs) in countries where the impact of El Niño was predicted to be especially severe, as well as in other countries worldwide.