“Without additional fuel supplies, bakeries working with WFP will no longer be able to produce bread. Only two of our contracted bakeries have fuel to produce bread at the moment and tomorrow there might be none,” said WFP Representative in Palestine Samer Abdeljaber.
As part of expanded dialogue in recent months, Hungary recently contributed $US 3.5 million to WFP in support of the Ukrainian Government's ‘Grain from Ukraine’ initiative aiding WFP to export grains from Ukraine to assist vulnerable populations in food insecure countries.
The Hungarian government has also agreed to host a new WFP office in Budapest.
BISSAU – A high-level delegation from the Government of the Kingdom of Spain today concluded a two-day visit to Guinea-Bissau to assess progress on a US$ 6.7 million nutrition project funded by the Spanish debt-swap agreement with the Government of Guinea-Bissau and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
Led by the Spanish Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau, Antonio González-Zavala Peña,
“There is only one way to describe what I saw today: apocalyptic. Entire neighborhoods have been flattened; homes destroyed, schools and shops closed; lives torn apart. The scale of devastation here is truly incomprehensible,” said Beasley.
The Executive Director visited Antakya, which suffered significant loss of life and massive destruction.
Including fortified rice in social assistance programmes represents an enormous opportunity to improve nutrition in India, where micronutrient deficiencies are widespread and programmes reach millions of people.
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The programme is designed to complement the government’s social assistance paid to the most vulnerable Ukrainians during the war while also supporting a sustainable transition from humanitarian response to more resilient national systems.
Since the programme was launched in August 2023, 400,000 pensioners living in areas of active or possible hostilities have received payments from
Some 345 million people are currently facing high levels of food insecurity, according to WFP analysis, an increase of almost 200 million since early 2020. Of these, 43 million are just one step away from famine. Meanwhile, WFP has recently been forced to cut food rations in operations in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Palestine as needs outpace available funding.