Special Interest: Access
Populations across the Gaza Strip are at risk of famine as fighting has surged again, border crossings are still closed and food is dangerously scarce.
The World Food Programme has depleted all its food stocks for families in Gaza.
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.
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.
WFP convoys crossed into Gaza from the north and south on Sunday as the long-awaited ceasefire came into effect.
WFP trucks have started crossing into Gaza after the ceasefire came into effect. We are ready to scale up to reach over 1 million people.
Four months after famine was first confirmed in Zamzam camp in Sudan’s North Darfur state, more areas in North Darfur and the Western Nuba mountains have been identified as experiencing famine conditions.
What motivates a humanitarian worker? Aachal Chand, head of nutrition for WFP in South Sudan, gives us a glimpse into what inspires her work.
Corinne Fleischer, WFP’s regional director for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe, describes Gaza as “a terrible situation getting worse.”
WFP Assistant Executive Director Stephen Omollo addresses the United Nations Security Council on the crisis in Sudan.
After more than two months of blockages due to violent clashes between armed groups, WFP has made important progress, delivering truckloads of food to the highly vulnerable neighborhood of Cité Soleil in Haiti.