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Before the storm hit, WFP had already started providing hot meals to evacuees in shelters in Manakara. Food prepositioned by WFP in Manakara and Tamatave, ahead of the cyclone, has started reaching affected communities, with additional stocks making their way to the areas worst hit.

Mr. President, thank you for inviting me to brief the Security Council on the dire hunger emergency unfolding in Somalia.

The special funding was welcomed by WFP for its operations in DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.  “The number of severely hungry people in countries across Eastern and Southern Africa hit new peaks in 2022, and we continue to face an unprecedented global food crisis today,” said WFP Executive Director David Beasley.

“We are extremely grateful for this generous funding from the Government of Japan to support women, men and children who have been driven from their homes by conflict,” said Eddie Rowe, WFP’s Representative and Country Director in Sudan. “Chronic funding shortages are forcing WFP to reduce food rations even for the most vulnerable such as IDPs and refugees.

The warning from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) follows the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis which reveals that 3.6 million people (19 per cent of the population) are currently experi

Additional information for journalists: Through a crisis committee established by the Government, WFP and humanitarian partners are coordinating assessments, planning and directing humanitarian relief to flood-affected people. WFP has already reached 2,230 people in Bangui and Begoua and 4,560 people in Nana-Mambere and Ouam Fafa prefectures with emergency food assistance through cash and

“I am very pleased to have been able to see in person the positive impact the UN food and agricultural agencies are having here in Sri Lanka,” Ambassador McCain remarked at the conclusion of her visit.  “The projects we saw over the past few days showcase how the U.S.

Two decades ago, Jean Nkeramihigo and Francine Kanyana moved to the commune of Vumbi, in Kirundo, Burundi, in search of land so they could start their own farm and bring up a family. At the time, agriculture was the main source of income for many in the area and the couple thought it would be easy to make ends meet.

Here is an update on the situation across conflict and drought affected areas of Ethiopia:   In Northern Ethiopia, 19 months of war have left more than 13[1] million people in need of humanitarian food assistance, mainly in conflict affected zones in Afar, Amhara and Tigray regions. Food and humanitarian supplies have been flowing at pace into the Tigray region over the past two mo

WFP’s refugee operation has faced severe resourcing constraints in 2021 and WFP was forced to reduce general food assistance rations to 40 percent of a full ration in March and April 2021.