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The Port is the heart of WFP’s operations in the region with over 200,000 mt of food destined for nine countries passing through each year.  The Deputy President and the ambassadors viewed a WFP-chartered vessel, MV Valsamitis, which is discharging 25,000 mt of wheat bought from Ukrainian farmers.

Across the Horn of Africa – in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia – 22 million people currently face a severe hunger crisis after four consecutive failed rainy seasons.  Alarmingly, this figure is expected to increase, with a fifth poor rainy season forecast by the end of the year.  Disruptions to grain supplies and rising prices caused by the war in Ukraine have pushed mor

Around 930 tonnes of rice and 120 tonnes of canned fish to be procured by WFP with the support of China’s Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund (GDSSCF) for top up lunches of some 130,000 students in 1,400 primary schools across the country. Inaugurated by Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Lao PDR, Counsellor Xiang Fangqiang, and Minister

“Today is a special and important event.

The 402 metric tonnes of canned Japanese mackerel and sardines, worth US$3.6 million, will be used to prepare healthy lunches for some 132,000 students in 1,423 primary schools around Lao PDR enrolled in the national school feeding programme.

This article marks International Women's Day 2021: ‘Women in Leadership, achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world’   “My religion does not allow me to fill my stomach when my neighbour is hungry,” says Habiba. “So, I must help as many as I can with the little that I have.

Narrow alleys twist and turn down the slope snaking between the closely packed tin shacks. This maze of paths contains the hundreds of homes that make up Moroto Simitini.  The village is in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa, where the World Food Programme (WFP) is providing emergency cash to families who have lost incomes due to COVID-19.

Caroline Mwendwa didn’t always have access to safe or nutritious foods as a child growing up in rural Kenya.

Abdi Kadir Bilow struggles to push his wheelchair through the sandy lanes of the Dadaab refugee camp in a remote region of eastern Kenya. He is just starting a 2 km journey, to a World Food Programme distribution point one-and-a-half hours away. Abdi’s only source of food is WFP’s bimonthly distributions. Today, he is collecting sorghum, split peas, and vegetable oil.

Since 2008, the U.S. Government’s McGovern-Dole Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, which is administered by the U.S.