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Congolese singer-songwriter Innoss’B is no stranger to hardship – the 27-year-old was born Innocent Balume, in North Kivu, one of three regions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo currently riven with fighting and food insecurity. To many young people, his success as a pioneer of the AfroCongo genre embodies the hope that dreaming big is possible, despite the odds – across the DRC, more

In Cameroon, where conflict and displacement have led to a significant deterioration in food security, WFP will use a contribution of USD $1.4 million (JPY 200 million, 840 million XAF) to implement a two-year project, lasting until September 2025.

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

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SANA’A – Yemen is at a tipping point as conflict and economic woes drag the country to the brink of famine and risk cancelling out the gains made through humanitarian action in the past few years, the United Nations World Food Programme warns today.

“The impact of this conflict spans three countries – Sudan, South Sudan, and Chad - and has created the world’s largest displacement crisis. Almost a year into the war and we’re seeing no signs that the number of families fleeing across borders will slow.

“When my crops depended on rain, it was like making a contract with the Weather God. I did my best, but if He didn’t send water at the right time, I would still lose my crop. With the canal, it is different. The canal ensures there is water.

Most of the Dominican Republic has been declared on red alert by the government’s Emergency Operations Centre as Tropical Storm Franklin, the sixth named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season (June-November), and the season’s fourth named tropical storm to form in four days, is expected to make landfall in the early hours of 23 August. In the Dominican Republic, approximately 125,000 peop

Achieving zero hunger and putting an end to the food insecurity that blights the lives of more than 800 million people worldwide is the work of many. To pursue this goal, the World Food Programme (WFP) works collaboratively with thousands of partners, including governments, private sector, UN agencies, international finance groups, academia, NGOs and other civil society groups.