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WFP Executive Director David Beasley will receive the award on behalf of the agency and its 20,000 staff in a virtual ceremony that can be viewed worldwide here on the Nobel site.   WFP is hosting a Facebook Live event The People’s Prize here - a celebration of the remarkable history, people and partners who are behind WFP winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and reactions from WFP staff arou

“This hunger crisis is on a scale we’ve not seen before and the evidence shows it’s going to get worse,” said Lola Castro, WFP’s Regional Director for Southern Africa.

“The window of opportunity to surge medical and humanitarian equipment into Africa to curb the pandemic is closing fast,” said Amer Daoudi, WFP’s COVID-19 Response Director.

Four in ten of DRC’s estimated 100 million people are food insecure, according to the most recent nationwide data, with 15.6 million suffering “crisis” or “emergency” hunger.     “So many Congolese are on the edge, and in even greater danger now of being tipped over the edge”, said Claude Jibidar, WFP’s Representative in DRC.

Heavy rains, high winds, deadly landslides and floods unleashed by Eta after making landfall in Nicaragua earlier this month killed dozens of people, destroyed infrastructure and hurt rural livelihoods along its path in Central America, including in Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. “Eta arrived at the worst time, making life harder for millions of people already hard hit by years of erratic weat

This contribution will allow WFP and its partners to rehabilitate vital community assets in rural areas, which will allow smallholder farmers to produce more of their own food. WFP will also use the funds to provide vocational training to those who are fit to work.

The UN team included the United Nations Children’s Fund, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, World Health Organisation, United Nations Population Fund and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Sudan. Parts of southern Blue Nile State have been inaccessible to UN agencies and most humanitarian groups since conflict began there and in the Nuba mountains of South Kord

ABIDJAN/ROME – The Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), David Beasley, will be on an official visit to Côte d’Ivoire from 24 to 25 March. During his visit, Beasley will participate in the inauguration of the Regional Centre of Excellence Against Hunger and Malnutrition and have meetings with senior government officials in Abidjan. “The Government of Côte d’Ivoire has made th

More than 320 million children around the world are now missing out on school meals due to school closures because of Covid-19. Many of these children are from poor families and depend on the daily meals they receive at school. Some 37 countries where the World Food Programme (WFP) implements school feeding programmes have so far reported partial or country-wide closure of school.

The Addis Ababa Humanitarian Air Hub is part of a United Nations initiative move to scale up procurement and distribution of protective equipment and medical supplies for the COVID-19 response.