The Latest Breaking News from World Food Programme

David Beasley, the U.N. World Food Programme official who clashed with Elon Musk on Twitter last year, said on Monday he hadn't given up on the Tesla billionaire contributing to the fight against world hunger, though the two are not in direct contact.

The Bank of England governor warned last week of ‘apocalyptic’ food price rises. Yet war in Ukraine, climate change and inflation are already taking their toll all over the world

Ukraine has insufficient storage capacity even for its reduced 2022 grain harvest, the United Nations' World Food Programme said on Tuesday, with the country struggling to export existing stocks during the invasion by Russia.

The death toll from South Africa's unprecedented floods has risen to nearly 400. Police, army and volunteers have widened the search for the dozens of people still missing after the storm that devastated Durban over the weekend. In Senegal, citizens express their anger at the failures of the healthcare system…

UN says more than two-thirds of population are in need of humanitarian assistance.

Madagascar has always known extreme weather events, but scientists say these are likely to increase in frequency and severity as the climate crisis pushes temperatures higher

Besieged region has an estimated 2 million people suffering from an extreme lack of food

Small, private groups are working to feed the hungry and evacuate the endangered.

India’s Permanent Representative to the U.N. calls for unimpeded humanitarian access to areas of armed conflict in Ukraine.