Tag: World Food Programme (WFP)

“Aid workers are neutral and should never be a target. Threats to our teams make it impossible to operate safely ...

The UN said conflicts, climate shocks, the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 and rising costs of living are leaving increasing numbers ...

Technology can help deliver aid and services more effectively – but can be harmful if users don’t know the risks.

“We and our partners have still not been able to reach areas where people are in desperate need of support, ...

He painted a grim picture of the shelling of urban centres across Ukraine.

The combined effects of conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate, and rising costs are putting basic meals out of reach for ...

The Borno government said that though the international laws regulating the operations of the UN system exempt them from paying ...

In his remarks, the Head of Damaturu Office of WFP, Agbessi Amewoa, said the programme is run based on funding ...

Saturday’s election would be the first election in The Gambia since dictator Yahya Jammeh fled the country.

The Zero Hunger Sprint is a competition calling on Nigeria’s innovators to bring forward concrete ideas that can help find ...

Food insecurity threatens an estimated 4.4 million people, 775,000 of whom are at extreme risk.

The report features 36 countries and it highlights the countries where a simple meal such as rice and beans costs ...

Twenty-one women and four men are part of the coop, centered in the community of Ajahonmè - one of eight ...

The WFP is the largest humanitarian organisation in the world, assisting 97 million people in 88 countries in 2019.

The report says people suffering from hunger in these countries could increase from 149 million to 270 million.

The report says Coronavirus is deepening the hunger crisis in the world’s hunger hotspots and creating new epicentres of hunger ...

The farmers say the response to the pandemic has affected everybody because all activities have slowed down

The International Telecommunications Union lost two officials in the ill-fated Ethiopian airplane.

About 19 UN officials died in the crash.

Zimbabwe has in recent years experienced erratic weather patterns that have left many people in need of food aid.

One of the agencies estimates that the number of undernourished people on the planet increased from 777 million in 2015 ...

In the last three months alone, 400 000 cases of suspected cholera and nearly 1900 associated deaths were recorded in ...