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Herat is my city. The place my family and I call home. It is Afghanistan’s cultural capital, renowned for poetry, literature, art and music. It is also the home of Qala Iktyaruddin - the Citadel of Herat - which some people believe was one of Alexander the Great’s forts.  Herat is an ancient city, and it has known war before.

The Republic of Moldova, a small landlocked country bordering Romania to the west and Ukraine to the east, is one of the poorest countries in Eastern Europe. 

The evaluation was conducted between August 2021 and May 2022 to assess WFP’s strategic positioning and role and the extent to which WFP made the strategic shift expected by the CSP; WFP’s contributions to strategic outcomes; efficiency and factors that explained WFP performance. It concluded that: The CSP was well aligned with national and UN priorities and demonstrated strong relationsh

Yemen is spiraling into a catastrophe as humanitarian funding dries up, forcing the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to scale back food assistance to millions of hungry families, WFP Executive Director David Beasley warned today, as he ended a two-day visit to the conflict-ravaged country.

One month into the conflict in Ukraine, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is providing emergency food assistance to one million people in the country and has built systems able to deliver food at scale to communities in need. Trucks, trains and mini vans are today delivering food supplies to the most vulnerable people across the country and more convoys are expected in coming days.

Nutrition programmes for malnourished children and pregnant and nursing mothers as well as school meals programmes have now resumed in the region with WFP aiming to reach 122,600 people with nutrition support and 321,000 school children with school meals this year. “WFP’s priority is ensuring the hungriest children have food on their plates and people suffering malnutrition get the treatment th

“This contribution from the British Government sends an important message to the international community, of the urgency to come together and support the government and crises-affected populations in Moldova,” said Douglas Mercado, Emergency Coordinator for WFP Moldova.

Her two-day visit to locations in Luxor and Aswan highlighted the impact of WFP and the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation’s (MALR) joint rural development programme, supporting 80,000 smallholder farmers in Upper Egypt. Sabry spoke with farmers about the programme’s impact on their agricultural production, income, food security and overall preparedness against the impacts of climate

Sunbeams trickle through little holes on the straw wall of his small hut in Jhapa in eastern Nepal. A blue fishing net hangs from the low ceiling of the kitchen. A makeshift wood stove issues smoke. For 17-year-old Narendra Kisku, ‘Naren’ for short, this is home. He blows to light up the fire to cook. Then he coughs, takes another breath and blows again.