More than 1 million people in northeast Nigeria risk being cut off from emergency food and nutrition assistance.
WFP is struggling to keep lifesaving emergency operations running. Sudan’s shows no signs of slowing down.
WFP is scaling up lifesaving assistance to more than 210,000 of the most vulnerable people displaced by the recent violence in eastern DRC.
A new joint report by FAO and WFP warns that acute food insecurity is deepening in 16 hunger hotspots, which could drive more into famine.
South Sudan continues to face a severe food and nutrition crisis, which is threatening to deteriorate further.
In conflict hit locations in Sudan that have been largely cut off from humanitarian assistance or under siege, famine has now taken hold.
FAO and WFP warn today of the escalating humanitarian crisis in the DRC with acute food insecurity remaining stubbornly high.
Urgent international attention called on the crisis in Sudan to address the immense suffering and growing dangers to the population.
New WFP report, ‘A Lifeline at Risk’, finds that 13.7 million WFP food aid recipients could be pushed into emergency levels of hunger.
WFP warned today that refugees in Ethiopia are at risk of rising hunger as critical funding shortages force cuts to food rations.
