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WFP in collaboration with the Government and the UN Agency for Refugees has also started shifting from providing refugees with homogeneous support to a ‘needs-based’ approach. In this approach, WFP will provide food assistance based on the food security and socio-economic status of each family.

“Super Typhoon Odette left a trail of devastation in its wake – affecting millions. Unless we act now and provide badly needed food assistance to affected families, we risk seeing a rapid rise in preventable malnutrition,” said WFP Country Director and Representative, Brenda Barton.

“We have a ring of fire circling the earth now from the Sahel to South Sudan to Yemen, to Afghanistan, all the way around to Haiti and Central America,” Beasley said at a session of the Munich Security Conference in Germany. “If we do not address the situation immediately over the next 9 months we will see famine, we will see destabilization of nations and we will see mass migration.

"For the past five years, the European Union has been decisive in our efforts to strengthen people's resilience in a country affected by climate impact and the influx of Malian refugees.

Two consecutive seasons of poor harvests led to a nearly 50 percent drop in production coupled with reduced imports of food grains due to foreign exchange constraints, according to the joint FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) report. The report notes that immediate food assistance and livelihood programmes - including through existing social assistance mechanisms – are cr

“The thought that people in Iraq in these times still suffer from food insecurity is unbearable to me,” said German Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq Martin Jäger. “Germany is committed to helping Iraqi people build economic resilience given that this is the basis for growth and stability.

The consignment of dates will supplement WFP’s monthly food assistance to over 50,000 pregnant and breatfeeding women, children under five years of age and  other vulnerable groups in Mtendeli, Nduta and Nyarugusu refugee camps in the Kigoma Region.

“China and Afghanistan are good neighbours and friends. Since 2022, the Chinese government and people have donated large amounts of humanitarian supplies to Afghanistan to help the people overcome difficulties," said Wand Yu, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to Afghanistan.

“WFP is grateful to all parties for bringing opportunities to the Venezuelan children. We can and will do much more for the people of Venezuela”, Executive Director David Beasley said.

“The past two years have been particularly difficult for the people living in border communities of Armenia.