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“Entire communities across Afghanistan experience despair and hunger,” said Ma Chen Guang, Counsellor of Economic and Commercial Affairs of the Chinese Embassy in Afghanistan, at a ceremony in Kabul on Thursday.

This strategic partnership aims to enhance WFP’s ability to make data-driven decisions in emergency responses, leading to more efficient food distribution, faster damage assessments and improved monitoring of cash-based assistance programmes.

On the eve of a major international conference to support Lebanon in Paris Thursday (24 October), humanitarian needs in the country are growing by the day.Intensifying air and ground military operations have driven hundreds of thousands of families from their homes, stripping them of their belongings, savings and livelihoods, and forcing them to desperately seeking refuge wherever they can.

Financially supported by DSM-FIRMENICH - a Swiss-Dutch company specialized in nutrition - the rice fortification initiative targets an initial 236 primary schools supported by WFP in Senegal including 101 schools in the Department of Matam.

The funding secured through the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) will provide emergency food assistance for people affected by the devastating floods which have impacted nearly one million people and damaged one million acres of farmland. Currently, one in four – 13.3 million people - are food insecure, with 2.7 million of these facing e

Earlier this month, an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report already warned that by November more than 90 percent of Gaza’s population will face severe food insecurity. It forecast that a large group would be in an “emergency phase” of need, while others would face “catastrophic” levels of food insecurity.

Hiwot Negasi – her first name meaning “life” in the Ethiopian language of Amharic – describes how her life literally changed overnight when war broke out and her family’s home in Western Tigray was invaded at the end of 2020.

At COP29, WFP is calling for:Accelerated climate action and financing in fragile and conflict-affected contexts where communities are most vulnerable and least equipped to adapt.Immediate action to operationalize the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, delivering crucial resources to frontline communities facing climate-driven hunger and malnutrition.

This appeal follows the release of the WFP-FAO Hunger Hotspots report which warns that South Sudan is a country of highest concern where humanitarian action is essential to prevent starvation and death.WFP currently has no food supplies in South Sudan to preposition for next year’s humanitarian response and needs US$404 million to frontload assistance.

Lightbulbs? Hold on, something’s off, I hear you say. That’s not the World Food Programme tagline you’ve heard before. What do lightbulbs have to do with the organization’s mission of ushering the world to end hunger by achieving peace? Well, WFP Sustainability — that’s what.  Eradicating hunger, working to avert famine:that's  WFP’s mission. It’s what we do.