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On 20 May Cyclone Amphan made landfall in Bangladesh heavily impacting 19 districts with more than 2.4 million people and 500,000 livestock evacuated to 15,000 cyclone shelters by the Government of Bangladesh. Bangladesh is facing a growing number of COVID-19 cases and the impact threatens to reverse development gains made over the past five decades.

CLICK TO VIEW: LATEST NEWS RELEASES Update 17 May 16:00 CEST World Food Programme Country Director for Palestine Matthew Hollingworth: “We’ve not been able to access our warehouse in Rafah for more than a week.

Each family will receive a food basket – valued at LKR 15,000 (approximately EUR 40) and consisting of eggs, rice, fresh milk, red lentils and other protein-rich pulses – every fortnight over a period of one year. “France stands in solidarity with Sri Lanka in the current crisis,” said Mr. Jean-François Pactet, Ambassador of France in Sri Lanka.

With support from the Adaptation Fund’s US$14 million contribution, the project will focus on districts in both countries where adverse weather affects farmers' crops and livelihoods.

On a cold and gloomy day in Veselianka village, in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, a few dozen people gather at a food distribution point where the World Food Programme (WFP) provides monthly food assistance.

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.

South Sudan is on the frontlines of the climate crisis and millions in the country are living the daily reality of a worsening climate. More than one million people have been impacted by an unprecedented, multi-year flood event that is sweeping the nation, exacerbating high levels of hunger caused by ongoing conflict and the global food crisis.

School-based programmes such as free meals, vaccinations and deworming can be game-changers for school-age children and adolescents, especially from poorer backgrounds, the report says.

We often hear that Africa is a place of multiple challenges – hunger, conflicts and erratic weather driving millions of people into food and nutrition insecurity and ever deeper into poverty. We also know that Africa is a land of plenty, full of potential.