Special Interest: Displacement
On the front lines of war and hunger in Iraq, the military offensive to reclaim the city of Mosul from ISIS has caused tens of thousands of families to flee. Hear one aid worker’s account of how this displacement has led to an unlikely reunion with loved ones -- and food -- after years of separation and hunger.
We talk to a WFP communications officer on the front lines of conflict in Iraq.
Achieving a lasting peace agreement and making life-saving gains in nutrition among women and children make these two countries promising areas for new collaboration and investment.
One family's move from South Sudan to Darfur in search of food has been told in a video that will be shared during this week's U.N. General Assembly High Level Week, when world leaders come together to discuss migration and refugees. WFP's Jonathan Dumont describes the day he met Apu Riang and his family as they made the long, desperate journey.
Almost four years after fleeing Syria, he and his family struggle to reconcile the life they didn’t ask for with the one they left behind.
The World Press Photo Contest just announced its selections today for this year’s best news photos. The winning photograph depicts a man on the Serbian border passing an infant through a razor-wire fence—a brief, but illumainting image of Europe’s ongoing refugee crisis. “I could feel the drama, the hardship, and also the hope,” Francis Kohn, a photo director at Agence […]
For years, Syrian families have lived their lives in limbo, not knowing when they can return home or what kind of future awaits their children. One thing they should not have to worry about is where they will find their next meal.
Violence across the country has made an already dangerously and desperately hungry nation that much hungrier.
The United Nations World Food Programme’s emergency response to the Syria crisis is its largest and most complex operation to date.
This Thanksgiving, we’re celebrating how the Greatest Generation tackled global hunger in the autumn of 1947. That year, concerned citizens across the U.S. started the tradition of setting aside a plate at their Thanksgiving tables for a “silent guest,” one of the world’s hungry.
A panel of experts specializing in international affairs, humanitarian aid, development and security came together to propose fresh perspectives and solutions.
Hunger has stolen hope inside Syria. Starvation is used a weapon in the war that always hits children - the most innocent - the hardest.