Location: Sudan
For the first time in ten years, UN humanitarian agencies have been able to access conflict-affected communities in the five non-governmental areas controlled in Sudan.
Every month Khamisa, who wants to become a doctor, walks from the family shelter to the U.N. World Food Programme distribution centre in Alagaya Camp, White Nile State to collect food for her parents and four siblings. She is one of the 387,000 refugees across Sudan that WFP supported in the first half of 2019. "Home is close by, but it feels so long ago," Khamisa says.
WFP Executive Director David Beasley congratulated leaders of Sudan and one of the country’s rebel groups for agreeing to principles to resolve their conflict including that freedom of religion would be guaranteed to all Sudanese in a civil, democratic federal state.
More than 30,000 Ethiopians have crossed across into Sudan, fleeing conflict in their home region. We urgently need additional funding to save their lives.
The number of acutely hungry people in the world may increase by more than 100 million this year, and some countries could be headed for famine.
The flooding is the worst Sudan has seen in nearly a century. We're scaling up to help thousands of devastated families across the country.
First the first time in nearly eight years, three WFP-contracted barges sailed to South Sudan with enough food to feed 370,000 people for one month.
3 women, 3 very different stories, 1 training program—giving vulnerable young people a voice.
In South Sudan, the combined effects of civil war and drought have left nearly 5 million people food-insecure.
“I am leaving with anger and sadness because hunger is forcing me to leave my homeland."
Escalating violence on top of climate disasters, sky-rocketing prices and the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing millions more people into hunger.
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