Already, WFP has reached more than 400,000 people with food assistance in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces and continues to expand its operations in support of the Government-led response across the country.
“It will provide an urgently needed lifeline to some of the hundreds of thousands of civilians, mostly women and children, who have been cut off from water, food, medicine, and other essentials for 13 days. But it is only a small beginning and far from enough. More than 1.6 million people in Gaza are in critical need of humanitarian aid.
This joint publication by the World Food Programme (WFP) and Action Against Hunger presents the impacts of El Niño in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in 2023 and 2024.
The United Nations World Food Programme today warned of an escalating humanitarian crisis driven by widespread violence and the long-term impact of climate change that has gripped Burkina Faso and neighbouring countries in the Central Sahel region of West Africa.
Soaring food prices and transport costs, disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts across the globe including the war in Ukraine, and the rise of climate-related disasters such as floods and drought are driving an increase in food and nutrition insecurity.
Uganda is often described as Africa’s breadbasket, but it still faces a multipronged challenge in eradicating hunger. Floods earlier this year followed a prolonged drought.
This funding builds on the original $2.5 million, equivalent to four million emergency meals, that Tesfaye directed to WFP’s Gaza response in December 2023. It provided 820 metric tons of food parcels to feed more than 173,000 Palestinians for two weeks. Additionally, Tesfaye is making an urgent appeal to fans, calling on them to give what they can by donating towards WFP's efforts in Gaza.
This factsheet provides a concise overview of the work of the World Food Programme, summarizing the facts, figures and frontline work of the world's largest humanitarian organization saving and changing lives.
Some US$20.6 million will be used to provide life-saving support to families in conflict-stricken Yemen, where nearly 50,000 people are living in famine-like conditions, with 5 million just a step away from those same desperate conditions.
In Afghanistan, a US$12.9 million allocation will support WFP’s response for families affected by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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