The number of people in need of humanitarian food assistance across northern Ethiopia has grown to an estimated 9.4 million as a direct result of ongoing conflict.
Here at World Food Program USA, we were blown away by the immediate show of support for the innocent people of Madagascar who are bearing the brunt of our climate crisis.
While Yemen’s crisis is complex, the effect of years of war on families like Abdullatif’s is clear. “I don’t care about my future now. What I care about now is how I can feed my kids,” said Abdullatif.
It’s remarkable what young ones can do with so little – especially when they’re living on the frontlines of war and hunger.
New findings indicate the food crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shows little sign of abating and could worsen in the coming months without scaled-up assistance.
WFP is scaling up support for people impacted by the third consecutive year of record floods that are battering South Sudan.
WFP warns today hat the number of people teetering on the edge of famine in 43 countries has risen to 45 million, as severe hunger spikes around the world.
Conflict is a vicious force, and one that’s pushed innocent civilians to the most extreme levels of hunger imaginable. Nearly all of them live in the same places.
WFP’s Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction Chief Gernot Laganda on the common solution to two great problems: the climate crisis and global hunger.
As climate talks get underway in Glasgow, families in southern Madagascar, where climate is driving famine-like conditions, brace themselves for yet another harsh year ahead.
