Location: Africa
The WFP school meals Peter Mumo received as a child in Kenya changed his life.
For Peter Mumo, escaping a childhood of hunger and poverty in Kenya began with an empty bowl, a nervous excitement, and the delivery of his very first school meal. These simple meals and the encouragement of his parents would change the trajectory of his life.
One family's move from South Sudan to Darfur in search of food has been told in a video that will be shared during this week's U.N. General Assembly High Level Week, when world leaders come together to discuss migration and refugees. WFP's Jonathan Dumont describes the day he met Apu Riang and his family as they made the long, desperate journey.
When violence or natural disaster strikes vulnerable communities, good data on the hunger that often results can be hard to come by. Learn how mobile phones in the most remote and dangerous corners of our world are changing how we understand and fight hunger.
El Niño has brought devastating drought to southern Africa and caused a second failed harvest that has left many farming families reeling in Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly stepping up life-saving operations for people like Roseby.
Unprecedented drought and a tumbling economy have left half the population without enough food.
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Conflict is devastating northern Ethiopia, pushing hundreds of thousands of men, women and children into the risk of famine-like conditions. Today, an estimated 5.2 million people in Tigray alone in need of emergency food assistance.
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.
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.
Côte d'Ivoire remains one of the best-performing economies in sub-Saharan Africa, but malnutrition and food insecurity are still ravaging rural communities.
Today, the DRC is the world's largest hunger crisis in absolute numbers and counts Africa’s highest number of internally displaced people. Hunger and conflict are fueling each other.