The Latest Breaking News from the World Food Programme

Echoing the dismantling of USAID, other countries are changing funding priorities and health and hunger programmes in Africa will lose out

On November 12 2025, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) published a joint report that raises alarm bells about the state of global food security. Both agencies warn of a “shrinking window to prevent millions more people from facing acute food insecurity”.

Organisations like the World Food Programme are scaling back aid or completely halting operations.

Military targets key humanitarian hub that was relatively unscathed by war after ordering Palestinians to leave

IN FOCUS: Aida Elsayed, from the Sudanese Red Crescent Society, is in the UK to urge MPs not to forget what has become of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. She speaks to Rachel Schraer about the horrors her country is facing

War has intensified poverty and hunger as aid is cut, with many families living in makeshift camps barely surviving

The UN's air service which flies humanitarian workers and cargo to hard-to-reach corners of the world has been forced to slash its global fleet by almost a quarter due to funding cuts, the World Food Programme (WFP) told AFP. WFP, which manages the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), received…

Thousands of desperate Palestinians stormed a United Nations warehouse in central Gaza on Wednesday, with the World Food Programme reporting two possible deaths in the tumult as Israel and the UN traded blame over the deepening hunger crisis.

Palestinian rescuers said an Israeli strike at dawn on Monday killed 13 people at a Gaza City school, as Israel presses ahead with what it has described as a renewed push to destroy Hamas.