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The Caribbean

Extreme weather events and rising prices are driving hunger in the Caribbean. Families urgently need food.

WFP Ramps up Lifesaving Food Assistance as Hurricane Melissa Leaves a Path of Devastation Across the Caribbean

As the full extent of Hurricane Melissa’s destruction emerges, WFP is intensifying relief efforts in the hardest hit areas.

Fill the Silence

Our fellow humans are brimming with innate, limitless potential. All they need is food to achieve it.

Ashley Park

Tony, Grammy, and Critics Choice award nominee Ashley Park advocates for Zero Hunger as a Goodwill Ambassador for the World Food Programme.

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Woman stands in field hit by tropical cyclone

Malawi

April 22, 2025

With a majority of livelihoods dependent on agriculture, the population of Malawi is highly vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters such as drought and flooding.

Mali

April 22, 2025

The cumulative effects of frequent drought, armed violence and widespread insecurity have progressively hurt people’s livelihoods.

Mozambique

April 22, 2025

Two back-to-back massive cyclones in 2019 devastated the country. Now COVID-19 threatens to wreak more havoc.

Namibia

April 22, 2025

The impact of climate change, coupled with COVID-19, has increased the scale of deprivation, food insecurity and malnutrition among vulnerable rural and urban communities in Namibia.

A woman stands in a dry field, throwing seeds.

Niger

April 22, 2025

Niger is a landlocked and food-deficit Sahel country. Gender disparities persist and continue to strongly challenge the country’s development.

Nigeria

April 22, 2025

Boko Haram has displaced an estimated 1.78 million within the country’s borders—80 percent are women and children.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

April 22, 2025

Today, the DRC is one of the world’s largest hunger crises and counts Africa’s highest number of internally displaced people. Hunger and conflict are fueling each other.

Djibouti

April 22, 2025

Djibouti is the hungriest country in the Horn of Africa – nearly half of the population lives in extreme poverty. But WFP is there, working to eradicate hunger for all.

In the midst of positive economic growth, this regional powerhouse is facing a set of long-standing development challenges: poverty, food insecurity, malnutrition, spatial and social disparity, and gender-based inequality – with climate shocks on top of it all.