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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.

On 13 September, near the city of Badin, I entered one of Pakistan's worst flood-affected areas.

Although it is difficult for women in rural areas in Armenia to start and run their own businesses, a 62-year-old woman in a small village sets an example for many women looking for new horizons, thanks to World Food Programme support in renovating her bakery. Greta Barseghyan, an owner of a bakery in Tavush region of Armenia, established her business around 15 years ago in a small village

The first shipment of Ukraine grain for World Food Programme operations since the war with Russia began left the Black Sea port of Pivdennyi in Yuzhny, Odesa province, this morning (16 August). Some 23,000 metric tons of WFP wheat sailed out on the UN-chartered vessel Brave Commander, bound for the drought-hit Horn of Africa region, where catastrophic hunger threatens more than 20 million p

After 40 years, Dalida Haikal’s family-owned shop in Gemmayze neighbourhood finally reopened. Through the help of relatives and friends, Dalida was able to renovate the premises which had been in the family for decades but lay disused, and to supply it with products. Her dream was shortlived however.

Cameroon has been significantly affected by three complex crises: armed conflict between non-state armed groups (NSAGs) and state forces in the North-West and South-West regions; NSAGs insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin affecting the Far North Region, and the influx of Central African Republic (CAR) refugees in the East, Adamawa, and North regions.

The EU’s funding, received through the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department (ECHO), enabled WFP to provide vital food assistance to 45,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) lacking access to food between April and December 2022, and to about 705,000 vulnerable people across the country severely affected by food insecurity during the agricultural season from July to

On Thursday, WFP reached 10,000 people displaced by conflict with emergency food assistance in the Adi Nebried area and gave nutritionally fortified food to 3,000 women and children, many suffering from malnutrition, in Endabaguna.