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In addition to the monetary increase, WFP has included fortified rice in its food assistance since the beginning of this year. Locally procured and fortified, this rice has significantly higher nutritional value than regular rice, containing essential vitamins and micronutrients critical to people’s health and wellbeing.

Congolese singer-songwriter Innoss’B is no stranger to hardship – the 27-year-old was born Innocent Balume, in North Kivu, one of three regions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo currently riven with fighting and food insecurity. To many young people, his success as a pioneer of the AfroCongo genre embodies the hope that dreaming big is possible, despite the odds – across the DRC, more

WFP is a critical player in supporting refugees and crisis-affected populations in Egypt through three key activities: 1. General Food Assistance (GFA), 2. Nutrition support for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women (PBW), and 3. Self-reliance activities. WFP provides cash transfers to refugees and crisis-affected populations in the form of monthly unrestricted cash.

Resilience programmes are crucial in helping people withstand crises and in fostering a sustainable future. Humanitarian and development partners need to focus on increasing the resilience of people, communities, and systems. Combining emergency assistance with this approach, we can reduce humanitarian needs and improve food security and nutrition.

The funds will also help WFP to provide special nutritious foods to treat and prevent moderately acute malnutrition among children under five, and pregnant and nursing women. “This contribution has come at the right time as it will cover the urgent needs of refugees in the first months of the year,” said WFP Representative and Country Director in Algeria Imed Khanfir.

Awad Adam and his wife Nafisa have been on the move ever since Sudan’s war broke out last April.

 Nearly two weeks after Cyclone Mocha left a trail of hunger and desolation across coastal areas of Myanmar and Bangladesh, a grim certainty looms.

WFP organised a Project Completion ceremony to recognize the vital contributions of USD 7.2 million (USD 3.7 million, USD 2.5 million and USD 1 million) from the Government of Japan to address the critical needs of 246,000 people affected by the unprecedented 2022 floods in Pakistan.

Desertification – both a consequence and a major contributor to climate change – is one of the most insidious and unnoticed threats to food security, nutrition and sustainable food systems.

REUNIR is a network of six universities from five countries: Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal, Chad, Mali. One if its key pillars is to promote the deployment of master's and PhD students from universities to WFP integrated resilience sites to conduct research for their theses.