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The government preliminary data on the storm’s impact in Inhambane, Sofala, Gaza and Maputo provinces, indicate that more than 48,000 people have been affected and over 23,000 students and teachers are unable to attend classes. More than 10,000 houses have been partially or completely destroyed.

With support from the authorities in Goma, and other actors, WFP was able to deliver 26 metric tons of special nutritious food to 8,000 children suffering from acute malnutrition, pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in 12 health centers across Rutshuru Territory.

As WFP continues to call on everyone to grant safe access to humanitarian relief operations in encircled and partially encircled cities in Ukraine, the generosity of WFP's partners is enabling us to scale up our response to the conflict, with the goal of supporting six million people caught up in the world's fastest-growing humanitarian crisis. In Ukraine, families in conflict-affected areas ar

The programme has already started in Kharkivska oblast, and will later expand to Mykolaivska and Khersonska oblasts, focusing on farmers with land plots smaller than 300 hectares as well as rural families growing food for their own consumption. The programme is designed to safely release land back to productive use, including by clearing it from mines and other explosive remnants of the war, to

This consignment, part of a broader U.S.

The Caribbean Food Security and Livelihoods Survey, carried out jointly by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) found that 43 percent of the population - or three million people - are estimated to be food insecure in 22 countries and territories. These Small Island Developing States (SIDS) continue to grapple with high costs of food and inputs for prod

The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. The Prize recognizes WFP's work highlighting the link between food security and conflict. Against the challenges posed by the COVID-19 epidemic, WFP is currently feeding close to 100 million people in some of the hardest-to-reach, most insecure locations in the world.

In Ukraine, it’s the scale of things that strikes one the most – the scale of the challenge, of the threat, of the country itself. “We spend days on the move every month,” says Matthew Hollingworth, the World Food Programme (WFP) Representative and Country Director in Ukraine. “And I mean that literally – days travelling, on the road.

It’s a Wednesday afternoon and Rasha has just finished closing the day’s flights between Damascus and her home city of Qamishli in Syria.