Special Interest: Conflict
Six years of conflict have taken a devastating toll on millions of Yemeni families, and now famine is a stark reality without urgently needed funding.
For the first time in ten years, UN humanitarian agencies have been able to access conflict-affected communities in the five non-governmental areas controlled in Sudan.
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.
World leaders have a chance at this year’s G7 summit call for the funding, resources and policies to save millions of lives. Ahead of the summit, WFP is launching Five Calls to Action to address today’s record-high humanitarian needs.
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.
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.
The people of the Central African Republic have been bearing the brunt of conflict for a decade, and food insecurity has been on the rise for the past years. Yet, never before has the food insecurity outlook been so dire.
The Central Sahel is in crisis, yet "nobody is truly interested and everyone just stands by watching tragedy develop in front of our eyes,” says WFP's Margot van der Velden.
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