Special Interest: Displacement
The latest food security assessment on Gaza confirms WFP's concerns about the ongoing levels of severe hunger across the Gaza Strip and shows the critical importance of sustained access to all areas of Gaza.
As fighting escalates in the south and center of Gaza, the toll on civilians is devastating, and the continued hostile operating environment make it near-impossible for humanitarian operations to deliver desperately needed food aid, warned WFP Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau.
The United Nations World Food Programme is urgently expanding its emergency food and nutrition assistance in war-torn Sudan amid the looming threat of famine, as conditions for civilians deteriorate and fighting intensifies in battle zones like El Fasher and Khartoum
Acute food insecurity is set to increase in magnitude and severity in 18 hunger “Hotspots," a new United Nations early warning report has revealed today.
Carl Skau, WFP Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, speaks at the Security Council Session on the hunger crisis in Sudan and its regional impacts.
Since late 2023, WFP has activated more robust delivery mechanisms for its operations in Ethiopia, a significant step in assuring the delivery of critical food assistance to the hungriest populations affected by drought, flooding and conflict.
WFP staff work resolutely every day to prevent starvation among Gazans, despite the fear for their lives and the many challenges.
Devastating floods threaten to worsen hunger across Eastern Africa as heavy rains lash a region that less than a year ago was in the grips of drought, warns WFP.
WFP delivered desperately needed food to more than 120,000 people in Gaza during the initial pause in fighting but has reiterated that the supplies it was able to provide were woefully inadequate to address the level of hunger seen by staff in the UN shelters and communities.
WFP is today warning of a looming halt to its food and nutrition assistance to 1.4 million crisis-affected populations in Chad – including newly arrived Sudanese refugees – due to funding constraints.
WFP is activating its revamped approach to operations in Ethiopia, a major step which will start to reach 3.2 million people with food assistance for the first time since June 2023.
Nearly the entire population of Gaza is in desperate need of food assistance, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today.