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This policy brief is the result of a long-term collaboration between WFP, Oxford University and Cape Town University to generate evidence underscoring the critical role of food security in a global AIDS response.

“UNHAS is more than an air service; it is a lifeline,” says Pasqualina Di Sirio, WFP’s Country Director in Madagascar. “We need funding urgently to keep this critical service running.

"For the past five years, the European Union has been decisive in our efforts to strengthen people's resilience in a country affected by climate impact and the influx of Malian refugees.

Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria top the list and face catastrophic levels of acute hunger, with families in pockets of South Sudan and Yemen already in the grip of - or at risk of starvation and death according to the Hunger Hotspots report.  Although the majority of the affected countries are in Africa, acute hunger is due to rise steeply in most world regions - from Afghanistan i

It’s been four months since Letemariam Lakaw gave birth to her baby boy on the floor of their room in Hitsats, a former refugee camp in Ethiopia’s Tigray region that now houses tens of thousands of families displaced by conflict.  “There were days where we didn’t eat any food the whole day and night.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is calling for urgent funds to respond to the growing crisis in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).  More than a million people have been forced to leave their homes in eastern DRC since January, bringing to 5.5 million the total number of internally displaced people (IDP) in the region.

 Refugee Al Roumat Ali fled armed violence in her native Niger nearly a decade ago. Today, she lives on the Chadian shores of Lake Chad, having depended entirely on World Food Programme (WFP) and other humanitarian assistance to survive.Unrest in their native Chad also uprooted Ali Nguila and her seven children.

It was carried out in 2022. This mid-term evaluation was commissioned to assess progress toward programme indicator targets, ensure accountability, generate lessons learned, and inform course corrections for the remainder of the programme period, and was intended for both accountability and learning purposes.

Severe hunger has touched over 1.1 million people with 14,000 of them one step away from famine. The situation, already alarming, is set to worsen by the end of year with the number of people in famine-like conditions expected to double. “The changing climate has meant that many families who were able to live off the land 15 years ago have now fallen into severe hunger.