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"Conflict is moving forward and moving fast," says Margot van der Velden, Director of the World Food Programme's (WFP) Emergencies division. She is describing the Central Sahel, a region in Africa including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, where it is estimated 20 million people are living in areas affected by conflict and 2.4 million people are in need of food assistance — a figure that could

The nine-truck convoy, carrying 280 metric tons of food– enough to feed 20,000 people for a month—was loaded in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa and took three days to reach Kapoeta, east of South Sudan’s capital Juba.

The coronavirus pandemic will see more than a quarter of a billion people suffering acute hunger by the end of the year, according to new figures from the World Food Programme (WFP). Latest numbers indicate the lives and livelihoods of 265 million people in low and middle-income countries will be under severe threat unless swift action is taken to tackle the pandemic, up from a current 135

  This story is part of a series to mark the World Food Programme (WFP) receiving the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize in Rome on 10 December.

Bullen, a slight and softly spoken man, is a powerhouse when he takes his camera in hand and stands before his new students — 34 young refugees participating in the WFP Storytellers training in Bidibidi settlement, Uganda. "I was once a refugee, just like you.

Fortunately, since we talked about this back in April the world really listened. Donors, leaders all over the world responded, they acted. Countries large and small took extraordinary measures to save the lives of their citizens and support their economies, spending $17 trillion on fiscal stimulus and central bank support.

Jakob Kern (pictured above), World Food Programme Country Director in Syria, visited Aleppo where the organization has stepped up support to tens of thousands of displaced Syrians returning to their destroyed homes.

Reflecting on a record year for emergencies Flexible funding has never been more essential to the work of the World Food Programme. In 2019 the agency dealt with a record number of emergencies — 8 at the highest level of 3, and 12 at Level 2 — fuelled chiefly by conflict and climate change. Conflicts in Yemen and Syria raged on, with millions displaced and facing chronic food insecuri