Current Ebola Outbreak in Africa: How It’s Worsening Hunger and the Humanitarian Response
June 3, 2026
There’s currently an outbreak of the Ebola virus in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda.
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Topic: Health & Illness
On the frontlines of DRC’s Ebola crisis: WFP’s race against time and hunger
June 2, 2026
WFP teams in eastern DRC share how they move health workers, supplies and food to combat Ebola and growing food insecurity.
WFP scales up emergency response in Akobo as catastrophic hunger and malnutrition deepen
May 31, 2026
WFP has scaled up its emergency response in Akobo, South Sudan, delivering vital food and nutrition aid to people facing catastrophic hunger.
WFP scales up emergency Ebola response in eastern DRC to contain risk of regional crisis
May 22, 2026
WFP is urgently scaling up its emergency response in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), working with the Government, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners to help contain the Ebola outbreak.
Hunger intensifies in South Sudan as 7.8 million people face high acute food insecurity and 2.2 million children suffer acute malnutrition
April 28, 2026
This was originally posted on wfp.org Conflict and displacement drive worsening crisis, with risk of famine in hardest-hit areas; nearly 700,000 children in danger of
WFP Warns That Six Critical Operations Are Facing Significant Food Aid Pipeline Breaks by Year-End
October 15, 2025
New WFP report, ‘A Lifeline at Risk’, finds that 13.7 million WFP food aid recipients could be pushed into emergency levels of hunger.
WFP Warns Haiti’s Most Vulnerable Hit Hard by Deepening Crisis
October 13, 2025
A new World Food Programme hunger analysis reveals alarming levels of child malnutrition and increased hunger in Haiti.
122 Million More People Pushed Into Hunger Since 2019, Reveals UN Report
July 12, 2023
The 2023 edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report reveals that conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and extreme weather have pushed 122 million more people into hunger since 2019.
FAO and WFP Warn of Looming, Widespread Food Crisis as Hunger Threatens Stability in Dozens of Countries
June 6, 2022
A new hunger hotspots report found that conflict, weather extremes, economic shocks, the lingering impacts of COVID-19 and the ripple effects from the war in Ukraine are pushing millions of people across the world into poverty and hunger.
How Mastercard Supported 84,000 Families Across Brazil With Baskets of Food and Hope
March 31, 2022
With support from Mastercard, the WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger in Brazil, Ação da Cidadania and local partners helped communities affected by the impacts of COVID-19.
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