World Food Program USA extends our sincerest gratitude and thanks to Executive Director Cindy McCain for her extraordinary service to the World Food Programme and unwavering commitment to ending global hunger.
Carl Skau has assumed the role of Acting Executive Director of WFP. Skau takes over from Executive Director Cindy McCain.
WFP warns that Lebanon faces a deepening humanitarian crisis as displacement grows and food insecurity worsens.
WFP has scaled up its emergency response in Akobo, South Sudan, delivering vital food and nutrition aid to people facing catastrophic hunger.
WFP is urgently scaling up its emergency response in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), working with the Government, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners to help contain the Ebola outbreak.
A summary of remarks from WFP Assistant Executive Director Matthew Hollingworth on the ongoing crisis in Somalia.
Conflict, displacement and restricted humanitarian access leave nearly 19.5 million people – two out of every five people in Sudan – facing crisis levels of acute food insecurity.
Food insecurity and malnutrition worsen across Somalia as the first famine risk since the 2022 crisis is confirmed amid the compounding effects of multiple shocks.
Mothers and children in Afghanistan are hardest hit by a growing malnutrition crisis, as multiple crises converge.
Critical funding shortfalls are forcing WFP to significantly scale back its operations in Syria.
