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The United Nations World Food Programme is today warning that unless humanitarian access is urgently granted to organizations like the WFP, catastrophic levels of hunger could hit hard in parts of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. The stark warning comes ahead of the High-Level Ministerial Conference on the Central Sahel in Copenhagen on 20 October 2020.

 Refugee Al Roumat Ali fled armed violence in her native Niger nearly a decade ago. Today, she lives on the Chadian shores of Lake Chad, having depended entirely on World Food Programme (WFP) and other humanitarian assistance to survive.Unrest in their native Chad also uprooted Ali Nguila and her seven children.

Funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the agreement was signed in Islamabad between Rathi Palakrishnan, WFP Country Director a.i in Pakistan and Rehmat Dashti, Project Director, P&D Department of the Government of Balochistan. “I am confident that the partnership between the Government of Balochistan and WFP will help us achieve our joint nutrition targets.

This brief discusses the use of a web-based climate risk monitoring system called PRISM (Platform for Real-time Impact and Situation Monitoring) to enhance social protection systems in the context of climate change and natural hazards.

In Bhutan, WFP partners with the Ministry of Health (MoH), the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD), and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) to create an enabling environment for healthier school nutrition and improved nutritional status of Bhutanese schoolchildren.

 Global hunger isn't about a lack of food.

The world is only just starting to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and must now contend with colliding learning, food, and climate crises - children are most severely impacted by these concurrent crises.

Led by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the two-day high-level conference is entitled, “Investing in homegrown school meals to strengthen human capital, women's economic empowerment and contribute to economic development”.

The special funding was welcomed by WFP for its operations in DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.  “The number of severely hungry people in countries across Eastern and Southern Africa hit new peaks in 2022, and we continue to face an unprecedented global food crisis today,” said WFP Executive Director David Beasley.

After eight months’ intense efforts to fight back the deadly epidemic, the tenth Ebola outbreak in DRC is not abating.