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WFP trucks arrive in famine-hit Zamzam camp in North Darfur; Over 700 trucks on the road to locations across Sudan PORT SUDAN – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) today announced a surge in its operations across Sudan, part of a scale-up effort to reach millions of people in the country’s most needy and isolated conflict areas.
FAO and WFP warn of looming widespread food crisis as hunger …
Jun 6, 2022 · Conflict, weather extremes, economic shocks, the lingering impacts of COVID-19, and the ripple effects from the war in Ukraine push millions of people in countries across the world into poverty and hunger – as food and fuel price spikes drive nations closer to instability says new hunger hotspots report ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United ...
WFP Chief warns of hunger pandemic as COVID-19 spreads …
Transcript as delivered of remarks by David Beasley, UN World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director to today’s virtual session of the UN Security Council on the Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Protecting Civilians Affected by Conflict-Induced Hunger NEW YORK – Forgive me for speaking bluntly, but I’d like to lay out for you very clearly what the world is facing at this ...
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WFP calls for action on World Food Day to avoid another year of …
Oct 13, 2022 · ROME – The world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive yet more people into worsening levels of acute food insecurity, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in a call for urgent action to address the root causes of today’s crisis ahead of World Food Day, on 16 October.
WFP temporarily suspends staff movement across Gaza following …
Nov 20, 2024 · ROME – The World Food Programme (WFP) announced today it is pausing the movement of its employees in Gaza until further notice after a WFP team came under fire on the evening of 27 August, a few metres from an Israeli check point at the Wadi Gaza bridge.
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New WFP analysis shows every 1% cut in food assistance pushes …
Sep 12, 2023 · To name just a few operations that have already faced significant cuts to food assistance: In Afghanistan in May, WFP was forced to make a 66% cut (8 million people) to its caseload while in July there were big reductions in Syria, Somalia and Haiti: in Syria 45% (2.5 million people) were cut from assistance, in Haiti the caseload has been cut ...
Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2024 - UN World Food …
Apr 23, 2024 · Published by the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) in support of the Global Network against Food Crises (GNAFC), the GRFC 2024 is the reference document for global, regional and country-level acute food insecurity in 2023.
New UN report warns of conflict-induced famine and catastrophic …
Oct 31, 2024 · The report - ‘Hunger Hotspots – FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity’ - issued today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) calls for urgent humanitarian action to save lives and livelihoods and prevent starvation and death in hotspots where acute ...