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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.