The first WFP-run United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) helicopter arrived in Beira on Wednesday to support rescue and relief operations and another is due to arrive.
WFP satellite imaging suggests that some 1.7 million were in the path of the cyclone and WFP is working with the government and partners to scale up its operations to reach 600, 000 people with immediate food assistance.&n
WFP is rapidly scaling up its emergency operations in Sudan, every day reaching thousands more people whose lives have been upended by the ongoing fighting. WFP is ramping up to assist 4.9 million vulnerable people in Sudan and thousands more who have fled to neighbouring countries.
“Thateng District of Sekong Province is characterized by high ethnic diversity and many food-related beliefs and taboos. High poverty rates and malnutrition impact especially small children, mothers of young children, women-headed households and persons with disability. We therefore welcome this intervention which specifically targets such vulnerable households,” said Mr.
Funding from the European Union is helping Syrian families to boost their nutrition at a critical time with a combination of food and cash assistance.
At a small supermarket in Hama, Rubin’s trying to balance a tray of eggs in one hand and a bag of eggplants in another.
“WFP is extremely grateful to the World Bank for this generous contribution, at a crucial time in Sudan when more and more people do not know where their next meal will come from,” said Eddie Rowe, WFP’s Representative and Country Director in Sudan.
This is the first-ever direct contribution from the World Bank to WFP in Sudan.
Around 930 tonnes of rice and 120 tonnes of canned fish to be procured by WFP with the support of China’s Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund (GDSSCF) for top up lunches of some 130,000 students in 1,400 primary schools across the country.
Inaugurated by Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Lao PDR, Counsellor Xiang Fangqiang, and Minister
Persistent insecurity, the climate crisis, and high food and fuel prices have exacerbated food insecurity in Chad, which hosts 592,800 refugees, more than any other country in West and Central Africa.
A ray of sun spills onto 3-year-old Delight’s face as her mother, Angela, hands her a piece of homemade “mealie meal” — ground maize — cake.
Still warm from the stove, it’s a filling snack for Angela’s five children — she herself has become used to going without.
Angela smiles into the light.
Famine has been confirmed in Zamzam camp, which shelters hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur Region, as conflict, displacement and humanitarian-access constraints have devastating consequences.
The report also looks at ways in which governments can repurpose their current support to agriculture to reduce the cost of healthy diets, mindful of the limited public resources available in many parts of the world.