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“The Japanese government is firmly committed to promoting the humanitarian-development nexus and helping rebuild self-reliance opportunities for refugees,” said Maruhashi Jiro, Ambassador of Japan to Angola.

One month into the conflict in Ukraine, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is providing emergency food assistance to one million people in the country and has built systems able to deliver food at scale to communities in need. Trucks, trains and mini vans are today delivering food supplies to the most vulnerable people across the country and more convoys are expected in coming days.

JAPAN HELPS WFP PROVIDE FOOD TO THE MOST VULNERABLE ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA The biggest contribution, US$18.4 million, goes towards alleviating suffering in Yemen where over 20 million people are struggling to meet their daily food needs.

The World Food Programme is working closely with the Government of Bhutan to help families across the country to improve their health, nutrition and agricultural production. From 2019 – 2023, WFP will use new technologies and rice fortification to reduce levels of malnutrition and help communities to eat more balanced diets.

'The world produces enough food to feed everyone on our planet. Yet, 345 million people face the threat of starvation.

The devastating storm brought life-threatening winds, heavy rain and severe storm surges, upending lives and livelihoods. It left thousands of people homeless, uprooting trees, downing power lines, littering roads with debris and cutting off water supply in several island states in the Caribbean.

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.

The contribution will be used to provide treatment and prevention services to over 90,000 malnourished pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under five suffering in Cabo Delgado, Nampula and Niassa provinces. “A nutritious diet is an inherent component of care and treatment in the context of food insecurity,” says Antonella D’Aprile, WFP’s Country Director in Mozambique.

A Situation Report is a concise operational document with latest updates on the World Food Programme's (WFP) response to an emergency. It gives an overview of WFP’s activities and informs the wider humanitarian community and other interested stakeholders about WFP’s response.

In 2020, WFP conducted energy activities in 20 countries, meeting the cooking needs of food insecure populations by distributing stoves to households and institutional cookstoves to schools. In addition, smallholder farmers are supported with energy products or services such as solar water pumps.