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ROME – Acute food insecurity is set to increase in magnitude and severity in 18 hunger “Hotspots” comprising a total of 22 countries, a new UN early warning report has found.

In Myanmar, WFP has pre-positioned enough food to cover the needs of more than 400,000 people in Rakhine State and neighbouring areas for one month. In Bangladesh, WFP fortified biscuits and 230 mt of food stock are ready to be dispatched if needed in and around the camps for the Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar. “We are preparing for the worst, while hoping for the best.

Dorati Ndagisa’s loss is achingly familiar in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where fighting has uprooted millions of people, feeding Africa’s biggest hunger crisis. Chased by armed groups from her farm in DRC’s troubled eastern Nord Kivu province, she and her five children are now destitute.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s conflict-ravaged northeast, 27-year-old Florence Mapendo faces an agonizing daily choice: hunger or violence.  “Finding food is the hardest part,” she says of the risk-filled quest to ensure her four children can eat at the Bweremana camp for conflict-displaced people, in DRC’s North Kivu province. In this stunningly beautiful but deadly reg

Food distributions are under way in Gaza and the West Bank in response to soaring needs after a sharp escalation in conflict – which has seen almost 264,000 people displaced in Gaza to date.

“It’s precisely in emergency contexts, where it is most crucial, that breastfeeding can be most challenging,” says Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), as the organization marks World Breastfeeding Week.   “Women may be constantly on the move, on physically exhausting journeys. Conditions may be overcrowded, or traumatic.

The volatile security situation in Idlib has rapidly displaced nearly one million people who are also contending with harsh winter weather conditions. Families are in urgent need of life-saving humanitarian assistance as the amount of safe space for civilians across the northwest is shrinking by the day.

At a time when at least one in three children aged under 5 is affected by malnutrition, breastfeeding remains a critical way to help babies and young children meet their nutritional needs. In responding to a global hunger crisis in a year of unprecedented needs, the World Food Programme supports breastfeeding across the world, supplying pregnant and breastfeeding women with specialized nutr

“The recent conflict has caused significant destruction and increased the suffering of Gaza’s population that has already been grappling with hefty challenges with little prospect for breakthrough,” said WFP Representative and Country Director Samer AbdelJaber.

On July 26, 2023, a coup d’état took place in Niger. As a result, on July 30, commercial and financial sanctions were issued by ECOWAS and WAEMU. Immediately following the coup, most development partners paused or suspended their development assistance. This report provides a preliminary analysis of the socio-economic impacts of those events.