Special Interest: Displacement
Carl Skau, WFP Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, speaks at the Security Council Session on the hunger crisis in Sudan and its regional impacts.
Since late 2023, WFP has activated more robust delivery mechanisms for its operations in Ethiopia, a significant step in assuring the delivery of critical food assistance to the hungriest populations affected by drought, flooding and conflict.
WFP staff work resolutely every day to prevent starvation among Gazans, despite the fear for their lives and the many challenges.
Devastating floods threaten to worsen hunger across Eastern Africa as heavy rains lash a region that less than a year ago was in the grips of drought, warns WFP.
WFP delivered desperately needed food to more than 120,000 people in Gaza during the initial pause in fighting but has reiterated that the supplies it was able to provide were woefully inadequate to address the level of hunger seen by staff in the UN shelters and communities.
WFP is today warning of a looming halt to its food and nutrition assistance to 1.4 million crisis-affected populations in Chad – including newly arrived Sudanese refugees – due to funding constraints.
WFP is activating its revamped approach to operations in Ethiopia, a major step which will start to reach 3.2 million people with food assistance for the first time since June 2023.
Nearly the entire population of Gaza is in desperate need of food assistance, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today.
WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain issued an urgent plea from the Rafah border crossing for safe, expanded humanitarian access to Gaza as humanitarian needs skyrocket and critical food supplies reach dangerously low levels.
Thousands of civilians on Sunday morning stormed a UN-run warehouse in Gaza’s middle area, where WFP is storing some food commodities.
An uptick in violence in Port-au-Prince since mid-August has driven approximately 40,000 people from their homes in several neighborhoods of the capital, exacerbating an already complex humanitarian crisis.
The catastrophic conditions facing hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza risk getting worse still, due to severe fuel shortages which threaten to bring food and other humanitarian operations to a standstill.