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This contribution, the first from BHA towards WFP’s asset creation and livelihood activities since the start of the operation in 2017, will be crucial to support the agency’s efforts to bolster the resilience of refugees and host communities in Lunda Norte province. The funds from the United States will support around 6,300 refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with food as

The contribution will support WFP in providing life-saving food assistance and nutrition support to children with acute malnutrition and the most vulnerable families affected by the most severe drought in 40 years in Huíla and Cunene provinces.

WFP began its programmes in Timor-Leste in 1999, providing emergency food assistance to internally displaced persons during the crisis following the referendum for independence from Indonesia.

In Cunene province, the contribution will help WFP provide nutritious products to prevent and treat acute malnutrition to some 700 children under the age of two and 3, 200 pregnant and breast-feeding women between January and July 2023.

The latest Integrated Food Security Phase, IPC analysis released by the government found that 25.8 million people continue to face crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity triggered by poor harvests, violence-driven displacement, disease, unemployment, and collapsing infrastructure. The report shows that areas worst affected by food insecurity include Djugu and Masisi in Ituri and Rutshuru

Sagaing Region is the second largest constituent unit of Myanmar with 5.3 million population, located in the north western part of the country. In July 2015, Sagaing was severely devastated by widespread flooding, triggered by heavy monsoonal rains and exacerbated by the tropical Cyclone Komen.

This article marks International Women's Day 2021: ‘Women in Leadership, achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world’   “My religion does not allow me to fill my stomach when my neighbour is hungry,” says Habiba. “So, I must help as many as I can with the little that I have.

“Without the mangroves there is no life for us,” says Rosa of the swamp area that serves as a protective ecosystem for the community of Punta de Miguel near Ecuador’s border with Colombia. Here, in the Mira-Mataje Mangrove Reserve, she goes out picking mangrove oysters – these provide a source of nutrition for her family, and she can also sell them on to earn an income.  The are

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Deicy Cuero recalls the desperate times when she and her husband José Ochoa were left knocking on neighbours’ doors for help — they even resorted to approaching strangers in the street. “When the need for food is that great, so many things go through your mind — especially when your son asks you, ‘What time are we eating breakfast?',” she says. The couple and their family had migrat