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A group of Kenyan women sits in a circle one recent afternoon, a metal box in the middle. It looks like a toolbox except for three telltale locks. Pocket-sized record books lie strewn on the floor. Money changes hands – many times.

“Distance Unknown” is an awareness art campaign on the complicated realities faced by people on the move, through an exhibition co-produced with migrants.

Dialo Koumba knew the violence spreading across her homeland would someday hit her village in western Burkina Faso. But when armed assailants killed her neighbours one night, she and her three co-wives ditched careful plans to sell their livestock before fleeing.  “Our departure was brutal,” recalls Kouma, 50, who has since joined her husband in northern Côte d’Ivoire.

Corinne Fleischer describes Gaza as “a terrible situation getting worse.” Over the past two weeks, 21 World Food Programme (WFP) food distribution points have been closed under evacuation orders.

Schools in Gaza are packed with families who’ve lost their homes and family members to the bombings that have displaced almost its entire population of 2.2 million people. The same is true of Gaza’s remaining hospitals.

Executive Director McCain is in DRC where she visited a farm in N’sele, near Kinshasa.

ROME/NEW YORK – Alarming new food security projections for Sudan published today show that Sudan is facing a devastating hunger catastrophe on a scale not seen since the Darfur crisis in the early 2000s, warn the heads of three United Nations agencies.  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) have

 Palestine: WFP Country Director Antoine Renard Almost a year of war in Gaza, and the devastation continues to deepen. Millions of Palestinians have been displaced, torn from their homes, separated from their families and close ones, and stripped of their livelihoods.

”Driving through Gaza City to Jabalia, the destruction is unbelievable.  In the North of Gaza, I didn’t see one single building intact and there was constant shelling with drones buzzing overhead,” said Skau. “The people here are traumatised and exhausted.

 Jean-Martin Bauer got locked out of Haiti the last time he left the country.