Search

For Editors: Photos here Video here   ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an emergency operation to provide critical food assistance to over 800,000 people in Gaza and the West Bank who are facing dire circumstances, lacking access to food, water, and essential supplies.   WFP calls for the establishment of humanitarian corridors to facilita

Using the Japanese management technique "Kaizen", the participants will receive specialized training aimed at enhancing their business skills and productivity to drive economic development in their communities. The training is generously supported by the German Government.  The training will take place in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, from 13 to 24 November.

“There is only one way to describe what I saw today: apocalyptic. Entire neighborhoods have been flattened; homes destroyed, schools and shops closed; lives torn apart. The scale of devastation here is truly incomprehensible,” said Beasley. The Executive Director visited Antakya, which suffered significant loss of life and massive destruction.

WFP will use the funds to address the immediate needs of Ukrainian refugees, by providing daily hot meals for refugees living at Refugee Accommodation Centres (RACs) and nutritious snacks for newly arrived refugees entering Republic of Moldova from Ukraine at major northern and southern border crossing points of Otaci and Palanca.   Part of the contribution will go towards providing c

UN appeals for urgent assistance as country becomes one of the world’s largest food crises. More than half the population of Afghanistan – a record 22.8 million people - will face acute food insecurity from November, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report

A funding crunch is forcing the World Food Programme to scale back food assistance in Yemen, reducing the rations of 8 million people to barely half the daily food minimum basket that is standard for the organization. This comes at the worst possible time for the 13 million people in the country who depend on WFP’s food assistance to survive.

The suspension of aid comes at the worst possible time for the people of South Sudan as the country faces a year of unprecedented hunger.

The first shipment of Ukraine grain for World Food Programme operations since the war with Russia began left the Black Sea port of Pivdennyi in Yuzhny, Odesa province, this morning (16 August). Some 23,000 metric tons of WFP wheat sailed out on the UN-chartered vessel Brave Commander, bound for the drought-hit Horn of Africa region, where catastrophic hunger threatens more than 20 million p

In Somalia, the United Nation World Food Programme is delivering life-saving assistance to more people than ever before, reaching 3.7 million people with relief and over 300,000 with nutrition support - but famine is now an imminent reality unless immediate and drastic action is taken.

Both Indonesia and Bangladesh share similarities in their high exposure to multi-hazards like floods, droughts and climate-related disasters like frequent cyclones that wash away entire communities.