The U.N. World Food Programme’s support is a lifeline as Syrian shoppers curb spending and traders suffer this Ramadan.
Hardly anything that happens on the battlefield stays on the battlefield. Every conflict sends its trauma and turmoil beyond places shattered by bombs. The conflict in Ukraine is no different.
Through the United Nations Food Programme (WFP) and a network of local NGOs, refugees and host families in Moldova can register for cash assistance. Across Moldova, WFP is also providing three meals per day to Ukrainian families.
The war in Ukraine is violently disrupting the global trade of food, fertilizers and oil products, with the already high prices of agricultural products reaching record highs not seen in West Africa since 2011.
The conflict in Ukraine puts enormous strain on a global humanitarian system already buckling under the pressure of 44 million people facing famine – numbers we haven’t seen since WWII, if ever.
As the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins, the soaring cost of food staples in import-dependent Middle Eastern and North African countries is creating ever greater challenges for millions of families.
One month into the conflict in Ukraine, WFP is providing emergency food assistance to 1 million people in the country and has built systems able to deliver food at scale to communities in need.
UNHCR and WFP launch the Soccer for Ukraine Emergency Appeal to raise funds for refugees who have fled their homes and displaced people inside Ukraine.
The fallout from the war in Ukraine will spread across the globe. WFP is working to minimize the effects of rising food and energy prices triggered by the conflict while scaling up operations inside Ukraine to assist over 3M people.
Desperate levels of hunger in Yemen are set to become catastrophic as the Ukraine crisis pushes up food prices and a nearly $900M funding gap makes further cuts in food assistance more certain.
