With nearly 8 million people — half the country’s population — severely food insecure, families can do nothing but pray for rain. For the third consecutive year, Zimbabwe is experiencing drought – the worst the country has seen in 40 years.
The four walls (and no roof) that Osman and his family call home is a building formerly used as a toilet. It took them four days to clean out. But still, his family is comparatively lucky.
Shadia, age 15, was displaced from her home in south Idlib in Syria in early September and now lives in a camp in north Idlib.
In this episode of Hacking Hunger, we asked WFP staffer and Yemeni citizen Mohammed Ghanim what it’s like living through the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
U.S. Senator Todd Young tells us why he is fighting to end hunger and conflict in Yemen and across the globe.
Millions of Haitians have been hit hard by rising prices, a weakening local currency and a drop in agricultural production. One in three are in need of urgent food assistance.
The Mt. Lebanon famine killed 200,000 people between 1915 and 1918. The situation in Syria today looks eerily similar.
With their homes destroyed and their husbands killed, the women and children who fled Boko Haram in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon have nowhere to turn.
The world may be moving on to a new year, but in Yemen, millions are being left behind. Conflict has created a hunger crisis in the country.
With his camera in hand, WFP’s head of television Jonathan Dumont recounts the stories he’s heard after more than four years of filming in Yemen – the world’s worst hunger crisis.
