WFP welcomes the news that Israel is prepared to implement humanitarian pauses, and that designated humanitarian corridors will be created, to facilitate the safe movement of U.N. convoys delivering emergency food supplies and other aid to people in Gaza.
The World Food Programme (WFP) continues to deliver lifesaving food assistance inside Gaza as the fear of starvation intensifies.
WFP will be forced to suspend all emergency food and nutrition aid for 1.3 million people in northeast Nigeria at the end of July. This is due to critical funding shortfalls which come at a time of escalating violence and record levels of hunger.
WFP has reached over 2 million people with lifesaving assistance in South Sudan so far this year. However, a severe funding shortfall threatens ongoing support, placing millions at risk of losing aid.
WFP urgently calls on the international community and all parties to advocate for, and facilitate, the delivery of lifesaving food aid to starving populations inside Gaza – safely, securely, wherever families are, and without obstruction.
WFP warns that millions of Sudanese refugees who have fled to neighboring countries risk plunging deeper into hunger and malnutrition as critical funding shortages force drastic cuts to lifesaving food assistance.
The population in two counties in South Sudan are at risk of famine in the coming months, as conflict in Upper Nile state escalates.
Laurent Bukera, WFP Sudan representative and country director, speaks on the hunger crisis in Sudan and the urgent need to scale up the humanitarian response.
Conflict is the #1 cause of hunger in the world. It uproots families, destroys economies, ruins infrastructure and brings agricultural production to a halt.
Janvier Muhima, head of WFP’s office in Port-au-Prince, shares the challenges they face delivering food amidst the violent conflict in Haiti.
