Famine has been confirmed in Zamzam camp, which shelters hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur Region, as conflict, displacement and humanitarian-access constraints have devastating consequences.
It’s 10:00 when Brian Langdon, deputy Logistics Cluster coordinator in charge of the COVID-19 response plan in South Sudan, gets his first call of the day. A newly arrived World Food Programme (WFP) humanitarian kicking off two weeks quarantine in Juba is checking in.
During the worst years of conflict in the city of Deir Ezzor, in eastern Syria, Rania’s mother told her not to leave the house. Mortar bombs were falling, the city was besieged by ISIS and fear was everywhere.
“I wanted to confront my fears,” says Rania.
Ekta was a promising and committed young professional who was committed to using her skills to ensure food reached some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
How do you reach beneficiaries with food and services in the midst of a global pandemic? This brief describes how WFP Mozambique has adapted its nutrition and HIV programmes to stop the spread of COVID-19.
The meeting was borne out of the realization of a need for a new way to look at and address problems in the world’s food systems in order to attain the Sustainable Development Goal 2 of Zero Hunger by 2030.