Zenebech Kahsay is relieved to watch her children play once again, their energy renewed at last by bread she’s baked after receiving a 15kg bag of wheat from the World Food Programme (WFP) at a food distribution in Tahtay Adyabo, in Ethiopia’s northern province of Tigray.
“My children were dizzy with hunger,” explains Kahsay as she grinds dark brown grains of wheat with a pestle and mortar.
As political upheaval shakes Niger, sustaining short and long-term responses to the worsening hunger crisis in the country is critical.
WFP’s emergency assistance needs to reach people at the moment they need it and at the appropriate scale.
Kenya is on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Severe droughts are often followed by heavy rain and flooding – forcing thousands of people from their homes, destroying livelihoods and degrading land.
“We need to be allowed to bring this food into Gaza for immediate distribution. And not just once. We need sustained access. The situation over there is catastrophic and our stocks inside Gaza are running out.
“This wheat production project to the tune of USD 75 million financed by the African Development Bank became the heart of production in the critical moment in Sudan. It provided food security, yielding 645,000 metric tonnes of wheat this year, and also became a critical crisis response intervention to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
The World Food Programme (WFP) is calling for urgent funds to respond to the growing crisis in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
More than a million people have been forced to leave their homes in eastern DRC since January, bringing to 5.5 million the total number of internally displaced people (IDP) in the region.
Carl Skau is WFP’s Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer. In this role, he leads the organization’s overall coordination, strategic direction, humanitarian diplomacy, and support for field operations. He also supports corporate efforts to maximize WFP’s inter-agency collaboration and partnerships.
While the food assistance has been designed to meet the minimum recommended 2,100 kilocalories, chronic funding shortfalls have forced WFP to provide reduced rations since 2020. Earlier this year (March), further reductions were made, dropping the ration from meeting 80 percent of the food needs to 65 percent.
More than 370,000 people have been forced to leave their homes and make their way to Afghanistan since the Government of Pakistan announced in October that all undocumented foreigners would be deported.
We visited Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, where the World Food Programme (WFP) is supplying cash to help families cover their most basic food needs.
WFP is on the ground alongside othe