
Refugees in Ethiopia Face Rising Hunger as WFP Forced to Reduced Rations
WFP warned today that refugees in Ethiopia are at risk of rising hunger as critical funding shortages force cuts to food rations.

WFP warned today that refugees in Ethiopia are at risk of rising hunger as critical funding shortages force cuts to food rations.

A new World Food Programme hunger analysis reveals alarming levels of child malnutrition and increased hunger in Haiti.

WFP warned today that rising violence by armed groups in Haiti’s capital is restricting humanitarian access and pushing families deeper into hunger.

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.

The population in two counties in South Sudan are at risk of famine in the coming months, as conflict in Upper Nile state escalates.

Millions of displaced persons – including refugees and internally displaced persons – face dire levels of hunger. WFP is on the frontlines of the world’s worst refugee and hunger crises providing urgently needed food assistance. Support our response today.


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.