The Latest Breaking News on World Food Programme

Haiti looting caused loss of some $6 million in relief supplies, WFP says

Looting in Haiti this month led to the loss of at least $6 million of relief assistance including 2,000 tonnes…

Reuters

U.N. food agency: debris from drone strike hit truck in northern Ethiopia

Debris from a drone strike in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region hit a World Food Programme truck carrying humanitarian aid and…

Reuters

‘There’s a path towards death that people travel’: how hunger destroys lives and communities

With malnutrition reaching record levels, we look at its devastating effects on the body and mind and the urgent need…

The Guardian - UK

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Food aid vessel leaves Ukraine for Yemen, WFP says

The second shipment of humanitarian food aid since Russia's invasion left Ukraine for Yemen on Tuesday, the World Food Programme…

Reuters

Tigray war: ‘I can’t help my starving family’, says Ethiopian World Health Organisation boss

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns Tigrayan relatives are ‘completely sealed off’ by civil war

The Independent UK

People facing acute food insecurity reach 345 million worldwide - WFP

The number of people facing acute food insecurity worldwide has more than doubled to 345 million since 2019 due to…

Reuters

US buying large shipment of Ukrainian grain for food aid

The United States is to buy about 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine in the next few weeks for…

Irish Independent

Putin’s war fuelling ‘catastrophic’ crisis putting 50 million people ‘one step from famine’

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has “put more people at risk of death” in dozens of developing countries where nearly…

Evening Standard

UN ship carrying Ukraine grain to Africa stuck in port

The Brave Commander was due to bring food aid to Ethiopia as part of efforts to help countries at risk…

Al Jazeera

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Nowhere to run: the plight of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia

Ethiopia has hosted large numbers of Eritrean refugees for years. Before the recent conflict, about 100,000 Eritrean refugees lived in…

The Conversation

U.N. World Food Programme optimistic on Ukraine grain export deal

The World Food Programme (WFP) said it was optimistic about a U.N.-brokered deal to reopen Ukrainian ports for grain exports…

Reuters

Kidnappings double as Haiti descends into lawless hell

Exclusive: Hundreds of armed gangs are vying for control of the long-suffering nation

The Telegraph

World hunger rising as UN agencies warn of ‘looming catastrophe’

Nearly 10% of the world's population, were affected by hunger last year, 46 million more than in 2020 and 150…

Livemint

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World hunger rising as U.N. agencies warn of "looming catastrophe"

World hunger levels rose again last year after soaring in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Ukraine war…

Reuters

Community fridges take the cake in feeding Ahmedabad’s needy

AHMEDABAD: World over, more than 800 million people go to sleep hungry every day. Even the $6 billion demanded of…

The Times of India

WFP cuts Yemen food rations further due to funding gap, inflation

The World Food Programme said it has further reduced rations in Yemen, where millions face hunger, due to critical funding…

Reuters

G7 must act to help tackle global hunger crisis-German UN food agency

The Group of Seven wealthy countries must ramp up humanitarian aid to help tackle a global hunger crisis exacerbated by…

Reuters

Fears grow for Afghanistan earthquake survivors left without shelter

First shipments of international aid arrive in country as officials say death toll has risen to 1,150

The Guardian - UK

One third of Sudanese facing acute food insecurity - WFP

More than a third of Sudan's population is currently facing acute food insecurity, the World Food Programme said on Thursday,…

Reuters

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South Sudan: WFP to suspend some food assistance due to funding gaps

In tonight's edition: A desperate lack of funding has forced the World Food Programme to suspend some food aid in…

France 24

Millions at risk in South Sudan as Ukraine war forces slashing of aid

Drastic cuts to World Food Programme assistance will leave people ‘looking death in the face’ unless global donors offer support

The Guardian - UK

Non-contributing countries seek ban on export curbs on World Food Programme

While nearly 81 World Trade Organisation member countries led by Singapore are seeking a ban, 33 countries have never contributed…

Livemint

Ukraine marks 100 days of war as African Union appeals to Moscow for food relief

Some 1.7 billion people worldwide face increased poverty due to a grain blockade caused by the war in Ukraine, amid…

ABC News

‘We don’t have food’: Africa’s growing humanitarian crisis

Leaders urge mobilisation to resolve a crisis that has left more than 280 million suffering from malnourishment.

Al Jazeera

‘I saw an oncologist cry’: Tigray cancer patients sent home to die for lack of drugs

Doctors call for international help as Ethiopia civil war leaves terminally ill being treated with paracetamol in Mekelle hospital

The Guardian - UK