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This comes as aid agencies scramble to respond to a fresh wave of refugees fleeing an unimaginable humanitarian crisis unfolding in neighbouring Darfur amid reports of mass killings, rapes, and widespread destruction. In just the last six months of conflict in Sudan, as many refugees have fled into Chad as had crossed the border in the preceding 20 years starting from the outbreak of the Darfur

With this contribution WFP will work closely with the Government of The Gambia to distribute emergency food assistance to severely food insecure people, and provide fortified blended foods to malnourished children under 5, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers.

A recent analysis conducted by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UN World Food Programme (WFP) and World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that the ongoing hostilities are worsening the drivers of child malnutrition. These include a lack of access to nutritious food, safe drinking water and sanitation, and increased risk of disease.

REUNIR is a network of six universities from five countries: Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal, Chad, Mali. One if its key pillars is to promote the deployment of master's and PhD students from universities to WFP integrated resilience sites to conduct research for their theses.

The TOR notably presents the scope, objectives, key issues, stakeholders and users of the evaluation. It also describes the evaluation approach, team composition and organization.

A 14-truck food convoy – the first by WFP since it paused deliveries to the north on 20 February – was turned back by the Israeli Defence Force after a three-hour wait at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint. “Although today’s convoy did not make it to the north to provide food to the people who are starving, WFP continues to explore every possible means to do so,” said Carl Skau, WFP’s Deputy Executive Di

The TOR notably presents the scope, objectives, key issues, stakeholders and users of the evaluation. It also describes the evaluation approach, team composition and organization.

World Food Programme (2023). Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa – Social Protection Systems.         Annual Country Reports Available at: Annual Country Reports 2023 | World Food Programme (wfp.org)  

World Food Programme (2023). Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa – Agile Regional Procurement.       Annual Country Reports Available at: Annual Country Reports 2023 | World Food Programme (wfp.org)

 VIEW LATEST NEWS RELEASESWorld Food Programme food security analysis has identified 44 hunger hotspot locations in Sudan – largely in areas of active fighting such as Khartoum, Kordofan,  Darfur and Gezira – in which 2.6 million people are at high risk of falling into IPC5 conditions (red alert on the global standard for measuring hunger).