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WFP welcomed today’s opening of the border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, which enabled a first convoy of trucks to bring in urgently needed food, water and other supplies provided by the Egyptian Red Crescent and the United Nations for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been struggling amid desperate conditions.

“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.

With poverty, inequality, and risks increasingly concentrating in cities, the burden of food insecurity and malnutrition is gradually shifting from rural to urban areas.

“People are running across the border, wounded, scared, with only their children in their hands and the clothes on their backs. They need safety, security, and humanitarian assistance.

The newly constructed center is one of the key elements of the broader value chain, which includes providing farmers with good seeds, teaching them new skills, and investments in irrigation with community involvement. “The community engagement and investments in Khondzoresk community is so strong, and that’s why we have been able to continue collaboration and provide support for the legume valu

Spanning 10 and 25 metres each, the bridges are strategically located just 105 kilometres north of Dushanbe and will serve as the lifeline connecting 10 villages within the Yagnob Valley.

Uprooted by Somalia’s longest drought in recorded history, 70-year-old Hibo Ahmed and her two daughters have survived on World Food Programme (WFP) cash assistance at a dusty camp for internally displaced people.  Half a world away, Herman Petitfrere is also displaced, after fleeing gang violence in the neighbourhood where he lived, in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is stockpiling 310 metric tons of food at the Gaza border ready for dispatch to people in desperate need – as soon as humanitarian access is granted.   WFP’s supplies in Al Arish, Egypt, could feed 244,000 people for a week if unhindered access and safe passage were provided to our teams on the ground.

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The warehouse contained enough stocks to feed nearly 1.5 million severely food insecure people for one month in Gezira State, where a new offensive has forced more than 300,000 people to again run for their lives. “Sudanese people who are already desperate and fleeing the fighting have now been robbed of the critical assistance they need.