Fleeing South Sudan: The Story Behind the Story

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.

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Faces Of The Southern Africa Drought: Roseby Samson

El Niño has brought devastating drought to southern Africa and caused a second failed harvest that has left many farming families reeling in Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly stepping up life-saving operations for people like Roseby.

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Hacking Hunger – Episode 7: Breaking Through a Besieged Community in Syria

In a besieged town in Syria, families had been boiling grass to survive. Then they heard that the first delivery of food and medicine in 18 months was on its way.

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Bringing Relief to Families in El Salvador

For the second year in a row, Central America has suffered a devastating drought that has pushed tens of thousands of people into hunger. Learn how WFP is responding.

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Hacking Hunger – Episode 4: A Slow-Motion Disaster in Ethiopia

A historic drought is sweeping Ethiopia and more than 10 million people have been pushed into hunger. How will they cope?

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Syria’s Hunger Pangs

WFP USA Board members Dan Glickman and Hunter Biden, along with CEO Rick Leach, explain why world leaders must prioritize humanitarian food assistance for Syrian refugees.

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Hacking Hunger – Episode 3: On the Front Lines of Hunger and War in Syria

We speak with Dina el-Kassaby, WFP's Communications Officer based in Cairo, about how the conflict in Syria has affected families throughout the region.

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Emergency Alert: On The Brink of Famine in Yemen

Violence across the country has made an already dangerously and desperately hungry nation that much hungrier.

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How Do You Feed Over 5 Million People a Month?

The United Nations World Food Programme’s emergency response to the Syria crisis is its largest and most complex operation to date.

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5 Unexpected Challenges (and Solutions) of Climate Change

When it comes to hunger and poverty, climate change isn’t one problem—it’s many problems.

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FamilyChef: Priscilla’s Termite Surprise

Welcome to WFP’s recipe series exploring the culinary treasures and cooking abilities of refugees who benefit from the agency’s cash and vouchers program, an initiative that allows families to buy fresh, local ingredients to cook traditional dishes. Thirty-six-year-old Priscilla and her husband, Wellington, are subsistence farmers in the village of Sasula in central Zimbabwe. They live with Priscilla’s 92-year-old grandmother, her sister and […]

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A Silent Guest This Thanksgiving

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.

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