WFP is warning that surging food and fuel prices driven by the escalation of the conflict could have ripple effects that will worsen hunger.
Driven by ongoing security developments, the humanitarian situation across the Middle East is changing quickly. WFP is ready to scale up. They have activated emergency preparedness measures across the region, and they can move fast.Â
In our modern society, why are people still hungry? Even though there’s more than enough food to feed everyone, millions of people experience hunger.
WFP is scaling up to deliver lifesaving food assistance to reach 450,000 people affected by the country’s worst flooding in decades – just months after Mozambicans recovered from the worst drought in its recent history.
WFP is today on all parties to the conflict to urgently halt military operations, de-escalate the situation and allow safe humanitarian access to deliver lifesaving food assistance to hundreds of thousands of people in South Sudan’s Jonglei State.
More than 1 million people in northeast Nigeria risk being cut off from emergency food and nutrition assistance.
WFP is struggling to keep lifesaving emergency operations running. Sudan’s shows no signs of slowing down.
WFP is scaling up lifesaving assistance to more than 210,000 of the most vulnerable people displaced by the recent violence in eastern DRC.
WFP warns more than 17 million Afghans are facing acute food insecurity this winter, as the scale and severity of hunger and malnutrition deepens.
More than 12 million people in Myanmar will face acute hunger in 2026, the World Food Programme warned today.
