News & Stories

Here are the latest stories of hunger and hope from around the world. Our blogs and press releases bring you updates from the frontlines of the planet’s worst hunger crises. Use the filters to sort by region or topic and share your reactions with us @WFPUSA.

Press Release | Mar 14, 2025
Earlier Food Security Gains in Gaza at Risk; Food Insecurity Concerns Grow in West Bank

In the 42 days of the ceasefire starting January 19, WFP delivered over 88 million pounds of food into Gaza and provided lifesaving assistance to 1.3 million people.

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Press Release | Mar 07, 2025
Millions in Central Sahel and Nigeria at Risk of Food Cuts as the World Food Programme Faces Severe Funding Crisis

The World Food Programme (WFP) warns that lifesaving food and nutrition assistance in Central Sahel and Nigeria will halt in April 2025 without urgent funding.

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Press Release | Mar 03, 2025
Senior U.N. Aid Officials Sound Alarm on Mozambique’s Triple Crisis

Senior United Nations humanitarian officials are appealing for urgent global action to address a trio of crises – conflict, climate shocks and a deteriorating socio-economic situation – confronting Mozambique.

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Press Release | Feb 26, 2025
WFP Forced To Pause Food Distributions in Sudan’s Zamzam Camp as Fighting Intensifies

Intense fighting in Zamzam camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region has forced the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to temporarily pause the distribution of life-saving food and nutrition assistance in the famine-hit camp for displaced people.

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Press Release | Feb 24, 2025
Three Years Into the War in Ukraine, One-Third of Population in Frontline Regions Struggle to Find Enough to Eat

As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year, an estimated 5 million Ukrainians are facing food insecurity, with the greatest needs concentrated in areas near the frontlines.

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Press Release | Feb 20, 2025
WFP Alarmed at Soaring Hunger as More Flee Displacement Camps in Eastern DRC

WFP has partially resumed food assistance in parts of Goma in eastern DRC, delivering vital nutrition supplies as three weeks of fighting continues to worsen access to food for the most vulnerable.

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Press Release | Feb 20, 2025
WFP Delivers Lifesaving Nutrition Supplies to Remote Communities in Madagascar via Unmanned Aircraft

The United Nations World Food Programme has, for the first time in three months, delivered lifesaving nutrition supplies for malnourished children in the remote region of Farafangana in southeastern Madagascar.

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Press Release | Feb 11, 2025
IBM and World Food Program USA Collaborate on New AI Project for Resilient Cities 

Following an agreement with WFP USA, IBM and WFP, the organizations today announced a new collaboration through the IBM Sustainability Accelerator aimed at scaling up social innovation action in cities around the world.

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Press Release | Jan 28, 2025
WFP Reaches Hundreds of Thousands of People in Gaza in First Week of the Ceasefire

WFP reached more than 330,000 people in Gaza with food assistance in the first week of the ceasefire, providing food boxes, hot meals and cash assistance to war-weary families.

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