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The funding will help more than 35,000 children and pregnant or breastfeeding mothers impacted by conflict, economic shocks, and climate events.

WFP will provide supplementary feeding and nutrition services to 14,000 children under two, and pregnant women and nursing mothers for the treatment and prevention of moderate acute malnutrition.

The DICT and WFP co-designed the world’s first MOVE vehicles, boasting cutting-edge technology tailored to facilitate on-site coordination during emergencies. The fleet includes a disaster coordination centre housed in a truck, an on- ground coordination unit built into an off-road pickup truck, an outpost coordination unit, with an off-road motorcycle, and two heavy-duty drones.

During my two days here, I had the chance to engage with people benefitting from WFP programmes including the Government-led National Poverty Targeting Programme.

World Food Programme (2023). Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa - Climate and Resilience Actions in Eastern Africa.         Annual Country Reports Available at: Annual Country Reports 2023 | World Food Programme (wfp.org)

 The World Food Programme is working with the Government of El Salvador to respond to devastating floods in the country that have killed 12 people, after an intense storm struck Central America over the weekend. In coming days, WFP is ready to complement the government’s efforts to provide food assistance to people who have left their homes and found refuge in shelters and to the communi

Breaking: WFP Sudan latest In the eastern city of Port Sudan, where tens of thousands of war-displaced seek shelter, frail infants with stick-thin arms chalk up dangerously high malnutrition levels. Hungry people pack schools and other makeshift housing centres, clinging to scant belongings from their old lives.

 World Food Programme (WFP) teams across the Caribbean are taking stock of Hurricane Beryl impacts after it struck Jamaica on Wednesday afternoon as a dangerous category 4 hurricane.

 Alvin Douglas was left homeless when category-4 Hurricane Beryl struck the Caribbean at the start of July. “A lot of people were caught off-guard because we underestimated the (warning) bulletin, we didn’t really take it seriously,” says Douglas, a resident of Union Island in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

In collaboration with the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, WFP will provide food and nutrition assistance to 14,000 people in Katsina and Sokoto states for six months.