Location: Africa
Senior United Nations humanitarian officials are appealing for urgent global action to address a trio of crises – conflict, climate shocks and a deteriorating socio-economic situation – confronting Mozambique.
Intense fighting in Zamzam camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region has forced the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to temporarily pause the distribution of life-saving food and nutrition assistance in the famine-hit camp for displaced people.
WFP has partially resumed food assistance in parts of Goma in eastern DRC, delivering vital nutrition supplies as three weeks of fighting continues to worsen access to food for the most vulnerable.
The United Nations World Food Programme has, for the first time in three months, delivered lifesaving nutrition supplies for malnourished children in the remote region of Farafangana in southeastern Madagascar.
Four months after famine was first confirmed in Zamzam camp in Sudan’s North Darfur state, more areas in North Darfur and the Western Nuba mountains have been identified as experiencing famine conditions.
Statement by WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain on the loss of staff members in Sudan.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) today announced a surge in its operations across Sudan, part of a scale-up effort to reach millions of people in the country’s most needy and isolated conflict areas.
What motivates a humanitarian worker? Aachal Chand, head of nutrition for WFP in South Sudan, gives us a glimpse into what inspires her work.
The first WFP food supplies destined for desperate communities in Sudan’s Darfur have crossed the Adre border from Chad, after it was reopened by the Sudanese authorities following a six-month closure.
WFP Assistant Executive Director Stephen Omollo addresses the United Nations Security Council on the crisis in Sudan.
After more than 15 months of war in Sudan, a catastrophic combination of conflict, displacement and humanitarian access constraints has resulted in famine in a camp sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur Region.
WFP is ramping up its lifesaving food and nutrition assistance program in West and Central Africa, targeting 7.3 million people during the ongoing June-August lean season, when food stocks run out and hunger peaks.