New WFP analyses show that 41 million people are teetering on the very edge of famine in 43 countries and the slightest shock will push them over the precipice.
As a new WFP report indicates a surge in people teetering on the brink of famine – which has risen from 34 million projected at the beginning of the year to 41 million projected as of June – it’s vital that the world steps forward to support the most vulnerable.
There’s little remarkable about a greenhouse growing chilies, cucumbers and tomatoes until you learn that it’s in the ‘Dry Corridor’—a vast stretch of Central America where drought is pushing more and more people into hunger.
This weekend, leaders of the G7 acknowledged the unprecedented humanitarian crisis our world faces today as more than 34 million people teeter on the edge of famine and endorsed a Famine Prevention Compact.
For the first time in ten years, UN humanitarian agencies have been able to access conflict-affected communities in the five non-governmental areas controlled in Sudan.
According to new data, over 350,000 people are facing catastrophic hunger in Tigray region. This is the highest number of people classified in “Catastrophe” level of hunger in a single country in the last decade.
Alarming new data has today confirmed the magnitude of the hunger emergency gripping Tigray, where at least 4 million people face severe hunger and 350,000 of them are facing famine.
WFP urgently needs funding to continue assistance to vulnerable refugees, to stop families falling into further food insecurity and deeper poverty.
WFP has started providing emergency food rations to people displaced from their homes in Goma by the sudden eruption of Nyiragongo volcano.
WFP welcomes a $1 million contribution from USAID to provide cash assistance to help hungry, displaced people in Armenia cover their food needs until the end of June.
