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The September 2023, Food Security Monitoring System Report highlights some of the key contributors to the deteriorating food security levels in Sierra Leone.

Meet Halima This story probably does not end in the way you might think. It starts in Somalia, a country ravaged by a drought that has caused over 1 million people to leave their homes. Halima and her family were among them.  Halima fought a battle against the unrelenting sun to find enough water for her family. Gradually choices had to be made.

Nutrition is fundamental for sustainable development: it is the fuel that empowers children to learn, adults to work, and communities to thrive. In humanitarian emergencies, nutrition is the difference between life and death.

A presentation of four provincial briefs describing the updated Nutrition and HIV-related activities carried out in Mozambique by WFP.

Corinne Fleischer describes Gaza as “a terrible situation getting worse.” Over the past two weeks, 21 World Food Programme (WFP) food distribution points have been closed under evacuation orders.

Following an unprecedented food crisis in 2022, Niger continues to face high levels of food insecurity, with two million people having experienced irregular access to safe and nutritious food over the last quarter of 2022, according to the November Cadre Harmonisé food security analysis.

WFP’s assistance will be suspended for 1.2 million Sudanese refugees and crisis-affected people in April due to funding shortfalls, including for new Sudanese refugees. Also at risk is the vital cross-border life-line supply route into Darfur – the only reliable route into embattled western Sudan.

Chris Nikoi, WFP Regional Director for Western Africa said: “We are grateful for this generous and timely contribution from the government of the Republic of Korea and Korean people to some of the most severe food-insecure communities in Burkina Faso and Nigeria.” Menghestab Haile, WFP Regional Director for Southern Africa said: “Because of climate change, COVID-19 and lack of access to water,

Some 5.7 million people have been displaced internally in the DRC (the highest in Africa). Of these, some 1.5 million people were displaced in 2022 alone.

Children crying out from hunger and dying of malnutrition. People risking gunfire to reach aid convoys, and surviving on animal fodder and soup made from leaves and grass.