According to new data, over 350,000 people are facing catastrophic hunger in Tigray region. This is the highest number of people classified in “Catastrophe” level of hunger in a single country in the last decade.
Alarming new data has today confirmed the magnitude of the hunger emergency gripping Tigray, where at least 4 million people face severe hunger and 350,000 of them are facing famine.
WFP urgently needs funding to continue assistance to vulnerable refugees, to stop families falling into further food insecurity and deeper poverty.
WFP has started providing emergency food rations to people displaced from their homes in Goma by the sudden eruption of Nyiragongo volcano.
WFP welcomes a $1 million contribution from USAID to provide cash assistance to help hungry, displaced people in Armenia cover their food needs until the end of June.
WFP has provided emergency food assistance to 1 million people since starting distributions in Northwestern and Southern zones of Tigray region in March.
Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are pre-conditions for the eradication of poverty and hunger and are essential to achieve all Sustainable Development Goals.
WFP has started scaling up to assist families struggling to make ends meet amidst a severe economic downturn, skyrocketing inflation and a collapsing Lebanese pound.
Escalating conflict, economic decline, rising global commodity prices and COVID-19 have all contributed to an alarming increase in acute hunger in Yemen over the last year.
WFP has partnered with the International Crisis Group to boost its conflict prevention capacity as it continues to deliver life-saving food to the world’s most vulnerable people.
