Conflict, displacement, economic deterioration and recurrent extreme weather in West and Central Africa are driving millions of people towards emergency levels of hunger.
Despite WFP’s expanded emergency response, an escalation in violence, displacement, economic turmoil and disruptions to local food production are fueling hunger in Haiti.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are again at risk of extreme hunger and malnutrition as humanitarian food stocks in the Strip dwindle and borders remain closed to aid.
Nearly a third of Lebanon’s population is facing acute food insecurity following the escalation of conflict in late 2024, according to a new food security assessment.
WFP trucks have started crossing into Gaza after the ceasefire came into effect. We are ready to scale up to reach over 1 million people.
WFP welcomes the agreed ceasefire announced January 15. But a ceasefire is only the start – not the end – of what’s needed to reach hungry families in Gaza.
Amid escalating violence and hunger, WFP stands firm together with the dedicated staff and volunteers of its Haitian partner organizations to scale up food distributions.
The U.N. World Food Programme’s Emergency Communications Head Jonathan Dumont recently visited the Gaza Strip — here’s what he saw.
The conflict in Lebanon has pushed tens of thousands of people across Lebanon’s eastern border into Syria.
There is an escalating humanitarian crisis in Syria in which is facing an influx of people fleeing the war in Lebanon.
