Special Interest: Emergency Response
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.
Matthew Hollingworth, WFP country director ad interim, on the horrific hunger numbers published today that show famine is imminent in northern Gaza.
Famine is imminent in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and the entire population of Gaza is facing crisis levels of food insecurity or worse, according to the new IPC report released today.
Sudan’s war has shattered millions of lives and created the world’s largest displacement crisis. Now this catastrophe also risks becoming the world’s largest hunger crisis, unless fighting stops, WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain warns.
Earlier today, with the help of the Royal Jordanian Air Force, U.N. World Food Programme food supplies for 20,000 people were dropped in northern Gaza. A massive relief operation requires more entry points into Gaza, including from the north, and the use of Ashdod port.
WFP Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau addressed the United Nations Security Council on February 27 on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
More than three quarters of Gaza's population have been forced from their homes, many multiple times, and face severe shortages of food, water, sanitation and healthcare – the basic necessities to survive.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is pausing deliveries of lifesaving food aid to northern Gaza until conditions are in place that allow for safe distributions.
A steep rise in malnutrition among children and pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza Strip poses grave threats to their health, according to a comprehensive new analysis released by the Global Nutrition Cluster.
Withdrawing funds from UNRWA is perilous and would result in the collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, with far-reaching humanitarian and human rights consequences.
Bottlenecks at the Rafah crossing in Egypt are stopping the well-oiled wheels of the supply chain of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in its tracks.
With the first month of 2024 coming to a close, I want to take this moment to reaffirm my commitment to the people of Gaza, and to people in conflict zones facing hunger around the world.