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This initiative comes under WFP's school feeding programme and benefits from the direct support of the Chinese Embassy in Guinea-Bissau.

I arrive in Mozambique a month after Cyclone Idai, which struck in March, killing nearly 1,300 people and displacing hundreds of thousands over three weeks — one of the worst tropical cyclones recorded in Africa.

Social protection and promotion programmes are designed to reduce inequality and discrimination, protect people against unemployment, sickness or losses of income, and increase their economic autonomy.

Reflecting on a record year for emergencies Flexible funding has never been more essential to the work of the World Food Programme. In 2019 the agency dealt with a record number of emergencies — 8 at the highest level of 3, and 12 at Level 2 — fuelled chiefly by conflict and climate change. Conflicts in Yemen and Syria raged on, with millions displaced and facing chronic food insecuri