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It’s 10:15 am in Velyka Mykhailivka, in the Odesa region of Ukraine, and around 100 young faces aged six to ten are lining up in the school canteen to receive their daily meal.

WFP is working tirelessly to get aid into the hands of people who are facing starvation, and we are saving thousands of lives every single day in Sudan. So far this year, we’ve supported 5.4 million people with life-saving food and nutrition assistance. As we speak, we are urgently getting basic staple foods into the hands of 180,000 people facing famine in Zamzam camp.

 Hardly 40 days have passed since cyclone Idai wreaked death and destruction in and around the city of Beira, and Mozambique is again in the devastating grip of a tropical storm.Cyclone Kenneth made landfall in the area of Capo Delgado, northern Mozambique, on 25 April.

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.

“Haitians are on the edge - every other person is now hungry. Rising hunger is fuelling the security crisis that is shattering the country.

 Walking through Khartoum’s shattered streets a few weeks ago, I spotted this doll’s head — eyes wide open, red mouth eerily smiling — lost in the rubble of the city’s once-iconic Omdurman market.I was part of a small team from the World Food Programme (WFP) that had driven for two days, across 800 kilometers of desert and hundreds of checkpoints, from sweltering Port Sudan to the country’s c

  As you read this, 42.3 million people around the world stand on the brink of famine, as conflict, climate change and global economic instability combine to create hunger crises in countries across the globe.

Yemen: the largest hunger crisis in the world   

In 2023, multiple threats collided and drove up hunger, from conflict and extreme climate conditions to economic shocks. By the end of the year, 78 million in Asia and the Pacific faced acute levels of food insecurity. This was more than double pre-pandemic levels, revealing just how many had failed to break free from the shackles of hunger and poverty since the onset of COVID-19.