Recent News Headlines : World Food Programme

BLOCKADE COULD PUSH YEMEN INTO 'HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE' AS 8.4 MILLION ON BRINK OF FAMINE


"We are trying to help prevent a famine from occurring," Stephen Anderson, Yemen country director for the World Food Programme (WFP), told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Tuesday... READ MORE

13th December, 2017 1

WHEAT AID ARRIVES IN BLOCKADED YEMEN AMID FAMINE FEARS


Ship carrying 25,000 tonnes of desperately needed wheat docks in the Houthi-held port of Saleef in western Yemen... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 1365

$5M PARTNERSHIP TO FEED HUNGRY REFUGEES


The three-year project will enable WFP to support refugees in Syria, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan... READ MORE

20th November, 2017 0

'IT IS HEART-BREAKING TO SEE 3.2. MILLION PEOPLE SEVERELY FOOD INSECURE,' SAYS UN FOOD CHIEF


Officials say the number of people displaced by conflict has nearly doubled in the past six months to 1.5 million... READ MORE

29th October, 2017 1192

MILLIONS 'COULD STARVE IN CONGO PROVINCE'


The head of the UN food agency has appealed for aid to avert a humanitarian crisis in the conflict-wracked DR Congo province of Kasai... READ MORE

29th October, 2017 3188

WORLD MUST STEP UP ROHINGYA AID


The international community must rally," David Beasley, head of the UN's World Food Programme, said after observing a handout of food to refugees at Kutupalong camp, near Cox's Bazar... READ MORE

1st October, 2017 0

WORLD FOOD PROGRAM SEEKS 75 MILLION DOLLARS FOR ROHINGYA CRISIS


We need 75 million for the next six months," David Beasley, WFP executive director, told reporters after visiting refugee camps in Bangladesh near the Myanmar border... READ MORE

1st October, 2017 81

'THE SCALE IS JUST VAST': AUTHORITIES, AID WORKERS IN BANGLADESH OVERWHELMED BY ROHINGYA REFUGEES


The movement of Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh is an exodus of vast proportions that has bewildered even the most seasoned aid workers, writes Nahlah Ayed... READ MORE

26th September, 2017 863

RUSSIA DENIES CLAIM OF AIRSTRIKE ON US-BACKED SYRIAN FORCE


The Russian defence ministry said Russian air forces carry out pinpoint strikes only on IS targets that have been observed and confirmed through several channels... READ MORE

18th September, 2017 0

GLOBAL HUNGER RISING DUE TO WARS, CLIMATE SHOCKS


There are fewer chronically undernourished people worldwide than in 2000, but a trend of overall decline has been reversed, according to a United Nations report... READ MORE

16th September, 2017 19

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NO ONE IS PAYING ATTENTION TO THE WORST HUMANITARIAN CRISIS SINCE WORLD WAR II


The world is caught up in the Trump saga and ignoring a famine that could affect 20 million people in four countries... READ MORE

26th June, 2017 77274

110 DEAD FROM HUNGER IN PAST 48 HOURS OF DROUGHT


The drought is the first crisis for Somalias newly elected Somali-American leader, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed... READ MORE

5th March, 2017 34790

FOOD AID FOR 80,000 ROHINGYA BLOCKED BY MYANMAR


Rakhine state is where the country's Muslim Rohingya minority group has allegedly faced systematic persecution since unrest broke out in 2012... READ MORE

20th October, 2016 16773

MUSLIM AMERICAN ACTIVIST VOWS TO HELP JEWISH CEMETERY WHERE HUNDREDS OF HEADSTONES WERE VANDALISED


A 26 year-old bodyboarder was attacked by a shark while bodyboarding in a dangerous water area on February 21, 2017 off Saint-Andre... READ MORE

28th February, 2017 14510

HAITI DEATH TOLL TOPS 470 AFTER HURRICANE MATTHEW, OFFICIALS SAY


The hurricane, which hit Haiti on Tuesday, brought 145mph winds and torrential rains that destroyed more than 3,200 homes, displaced 15,000 people, ruined plantations and drowned animals... READ MORE

7th October, 2016 7622

YEMEN FOOD CRISIS LEAVES MILLIONS AT RISK OF STARVING


Yemen had one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world before the current conflict, according to the WFP... READ MORE

27th October, 2016 6628

GEORGE W BUSH DENOUNCES 'RACISM' OF TRUMP ERA


A 26 year-old bodyboarder was attacked by a shark while bodyboarding in a dangerous water area on February 21, 2017 off Saint-Andre... READ MORE

28th February, 2017 5814

SAUDIS 'SHOULD FUND ALL HUMANITARIAN AID' IN YEMEN


Saudi Arabia alone should fund all steps to tackle widespread disease and hunger in war-torn Yemen, a top UN official has said... READ MORE

5th September, 2017 4519

THE U.N. ASKED FOR BILLIONS TO AVERT FOUR HUNGER CRISES. THE MONEY DIDN'T ARRIVE.


In South Sudan, the United Nations says that 2,800 people are fleeing worsening violence and looming famine every day... READ MORE

3rd June, 2017 4024

'THEY SLEEP WHEN THEY'RE TOO HUNGRY'


'They sleep when they're too hungry' South Sudanese trapped by war, famine grow increasingly desperate... READ MORE

3rd May, 2017 2435

MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FACE ACUTE HUNGER IN DRC


One in 10 people living in rural areas suffers from acute hunger, while chronic malnutrition affects 43 per cent of children under five years, the FAO report said... READ MORE

15th August, 2017 974

BOKO HARAM FALLS VICTIM TO A FOOD CRISIS IT CREATED


Such attacks are becoming increasingly common in the areas bordering Boko Haram's base in northeastern Nigeria... READ MORE

5th March, 2016 882

UN ACCUSED OF FAILING AS NORTH-EAST NIGERIA AT RISK OF FAMINE


But Maj Gen Leo Irabor, who leads the military operation against Boko Haram in the region, said hunger in the Bama camp was relative ... READ MORE

15th July, 2016 833

LACK OF FUNDS: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME DROPS AID TO ONE-THIRD OF SYRIAN REFUGEES


Jordan hosts about 630,000 Syrian refugees, including more than half a million in communities and the rest in camps... READ MORE

5th September, 2015 831

WHAT'S THE BEST BIT OF THE UN? NO 3


The world's largest humanitarian agency delivers food and other relief supplies to about 80 million people in more than 80 countries every year... READ MORE

8th September, 2015 584

SOUTHERN AFRICA'S DROUGHT LEAVES MILLIONS HUNGRY


UN says 14 million people face starvation because of reduced food production, blamed on El Nino weather pattern... READ MORE

18th January, 2016 574

'DYING OF HUNGER': FAMINE DECLARED IN SOUTH SUDAN


Aid agencies said 100,000 people were affected by the famine, which threaten to affect a further one million people in the coming months... READ MORE

20th February, 2017 556

CHILDREN AT RISK IN 'WORST CRISIS SINCE 2001'


Inefficient food production means that large parts of the North Korean population face malnutrition or death... READ MORE

21st July, 2017 520

JUBA IN THE SPOTLIGHT: ONGOING TURMOIL IN THE WORLD'S YOUNGEST CAPITAL


One year into South Sudan's new transitional government, Juba is still struggling to cope with insecurity, poverty and conflict... READ MORE

8th May, 2017 483

IN CAMPS AND RUINS, MOSUL CIVILIANS' ORDEAL IS FAR FROM OVER


More than one million people fled their homes in Mosul and nearby villages since the fighting started... READ MORE

19th July, 2017 454

DISPLACED ROHINGYA IN CAMPS FACE AID CRISIS AFTER MYANMAR VIOLENCE


Tin Maung Swe, secretary of the Rakhine state government, confirmed that workers have refused to work for the WFP... READ MORE

2nd September, 2017 448

'400 RESIDENTS MUST LEAVE' FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT


Monday's aid delivery was the first allowed into Madaya since mid-October, when the UN's World Food Programme took a month's supply of food rations for 20,000 people... READ MORE

12th January, 2016 402

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME PINS HOPES ON APP TO NOURISH 20,000 SYRIAN CHILDREN


In July this year, the WFP announced that it would have to halve the value of food vouchers given to Syrian refugees in Lebanon... READ MORE

12th November, 2015 390

THE GRIM REALITY FACED BY THE SYRIAN REFUGEES STRANDED IN LEBANON


Refugee crisis The grim reality faced by the Syrian refugees stranded in Lebanon... READ MORE

7th September, 2015 346

COUNCIL PRESSURES VEGETARIAN STREET FESTIVAL TO SERVE MEAT


A 26 year-old bodyboarder was attacked by a shark while bodyboarding in a dangerous water area on February 21, 2017 off Saint-Andre... READ MORE

26th February, 2017 323

A WEEK AFTER HURRICANE MATTHEW, THOSE IN REMOTE HAITI ANXIOUSLY AWAIT AID


Debris is scattered along the shoreline of Les Cayes, nearly a week after Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti, leaving an estimated 1,000 people dead and thousands more homeless... READ MORE

12th October, 2016 274

SMARTPHONE APP INITIATIVE FEEDS PREGNANT WOMEN IN HOMS


WFP campaign allows app users to provide 2,000 vulnerable women and babies with vital nutrition in Syrian city of Homs... READ MORE

16th January, 2016 249

ROBERT MUGABE BOOED IN ZIMBABWE'S PARLIAMENT OVER ECONOMIC CRISIS


Zimbabwes economy has been on a downward spiral for more than a decade with slow growth, low liquidity and high unemployment... READ MORE

26th August, 2015 244

HOW ARE PEOPLE FEEDING THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES?


Opposition activists in Syria have told the BBC that people are dying of starvation in the government-besieged town of Madaya, near Damascus... READ MORE

7th January, 2016 237


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