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In Bangladesh, WFP provides food assistance to the entire population of 860,000 Rohingya people living in the camps in the Cox’s Bazar district.

The situation is particularly worrying in conflict-affected areas of the Lake Chad Basin and the Liptako-Gourma region (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger), where 25,500 people will experience catastrophic hunger (phase 5) during the June-August 2023 lean season.

For three decades, John Mabior lived in fear of the next attack, looting or killing. His community of Malual Mok, in South Sudan’s midwestern Tonj South, had always been at war with its neighbours across the river – the Thony community .

“We are pleased to support the widely recognized work of WFP in fighting hunger everywhere.

The latest contribution makes USAID WFP’s most vital donor in 2020, supporting up to 280,000 displaced Iraqis and 76,000 Syrian refugees through cash and voucher assistance that meets their immediate food needs.

In 2014, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) assisted more than five million of the most vulnerable and food-insecure people in Ethiopia.

The take-home food distributions began on July 6 and will run through the month, covering more than 300 schools in all Karamoja’s nine districts.

"As humanitarian crises become more frequent, complex and protracted, the need to devise services that are scalable, replicable and efficient for humanitarian organisations has become crucial,” said John Giusti, Chief Regulatory Officer, GSMA.

A global network spanning 41 countries, SUN BN aims to reduce malnutrition in all its forms through engaging and supporting businesses to act, invest and innovate in responsible and sustainable actions and operations to improve nutrition.

By Arif Husain The coronavirus pandemic is changing the way we live and work. It's also affecting the World Food Programme's (WFP) life-saving operations across the globe. In an interview last month, I signalled the potential implications of the disease for the world's interconnected systems and economies.