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The mission included a visit to Baidoa in the Southwest region of Somalia, one of the worst drought-affected areas in 2022. “During my time in Baidoa, I met families who had to leave their homes due to conflict and extreme climate shocks. Families are stuck in a cycle of climate disasters, displacement, and a lack of nutritious food and education,” said Skau.

When Aker Monychol Biar’s husband was killed in the latter years of South Sudan’s civil war, she headed north to Sudan, seeking safety and a job to pay for her children’s education.  “There was nothing to eat and I needed to work for my children,” says Aker, a mother of five, who hails from South Sudan’s northern county of Malakal.

McCain takes up the vital role at a time when the unprecedented global food crisis is pushing millions of people deeper into hunger, with a particular impact on the lives of women and girls. “Hunger puts more people- particularly women and children - at risk of sexual exploitation and abuse,” said McCain and stressed that "Seeking food or humanitarian assistance should never be a choice to sacr

McCain thanked His Holiness for being a strong voice for the world’s hungry and his advocacy for the most vulnerable.

The Director-General of FAO Qu Dongyu, the President of IFAD Alvaro Lario, and the Executive Director of WFP Cindy McCain visited communities who are grappling with the effects of severe weather events, which, coupled with a lack of infrastructure, are worsening the country’s humanitarian crisis, threatening farms and agro-pastoral livelihoods, and displacing communities. The visit comes after

In the 40-minute audience, Beasley voiced specific fears about famine looming in several countries at the same time as COVID-19 is ravaging communities around the globe. WFP projects that some 270 million people will face severe hunger this year, fuelled by COVID-19, conflict, climate shocks and other factors. Beasley also briefed Pope Francis on his appeal to billionaires who have become we

Food insecurity in Afghanistan is rising sharply, driven by the impact of the economic crisis, decades of conflict, and drought. Men, women, and children queuing for food assistance say that the misery of hunger, today, is even greater than the challenges they endured during the worst days of conflict.

We offer our deepest sympathies to the people of Türkiye and the neighboring Syrian Arab Republic who have suffered the recent earthquakes.

On Yemen: “Just two days ago, I was in Yemen, where over 16 million people now face crisis levels of hunger or worse. These aren’t just numbers. These are real people. And we are headed straight toward the biggest famine in modern history. It is hell on earth in many places in Yemen right now.” “Around 400,000 children may die in Yemen this year without urgent intervention.

Right now, in Afghanistan, over 15 million people are struggling to put food on their plates. WFP can only support 3 million of them from now on due to a massive funding shortfall.