Ram Bibi and her parents are among nearly more than 7,300 refugee families from Afghanistan and Iraq residing inside 20 settlements across Iran.
Cash assistance from the World Food Programme(WFP) facilitated by donors such as the European Union enables people to buy the foods they need, while in-kind foods such as flour enable families to make food.
Ram Bibi's family moved to Iran
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It's not even noon in Satara, a remote village in Niger’s southwestern Tillaberi region, and the thermometer is already hovering near 40 degrees Celsius. The unpaved road to the village is bumpy and sandy.
In Niger, over 3.3 million women, men, and children (13 per cent of the total population) are severely food insecure. Maternal mortality rates are high, with 1 in 226 pregnant women dying from pregnancy-related causes.
WFP continues to deliver emergency food assistance in Haiti alongside programmes that help tackle root causes of hunger. However, the recent uptick in violence has prevented WFP from reaching more than 370,000 of most food insecure Haitians since early February.
The two planeloads worth of humanitarian cargo, comprised medical supplies and food rations, was brought into the country at the request of the National Disaster Management Offices for Fiji and Vanuatu respectively.
“Thanks to our partners, the flights provided timely assistance to the government-led response after the devastation caused by the twin cyclones Judy and Kevin.
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, good morning to you all.
As you have heard from our previous speakers, one thing is very clear from the latest edition of the State of Food Security report: the world is badly off-track in our efforts to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030.
Despite our collective commitment, with only six years left to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, more
This figure represents a four-million increase in the number of people who are food-insecure compared to the November 2023 forecast and highlights a fourfold increase over the last five years. The situation is particularly worrying in conflict-affected northern Mali, where an estimated 2,600 people are likely to experience catastrophic hunger (IPC/CH phase 5).