Location: Africa
Climate extremes will keep hunger in Somalia at record highs, warned WFP today, as deadly floods sweep the country, devastating deeply food-insecure communities who are still battling to recover from the country’s longest recorded drought.
Children in flood-affected parts of South Sudan are expected to face extreme levels of malnutrition in the first half of 2024 as the climate crisis tightens its grip on the country, WFP warned today.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun providing desperately needed food assistance to more than 5,000 families displaced by massive flooding in Libya.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is on the ground responding to the floods in Libya and assisting affected families.
Refugee camps exist all over the world to help people who have been forced from their homes. These camps play a vital role in providing displaced people with temporary – and sometimes long-term – assistance.
Millions of people in the Horn of Africa are trapped in a hunger emergency as the region lurches from crisis to crisis.
WFP warns that an additional 2.5 million people in Sudan are expected to slip into hunger in the coming months as a result of the ongoing violence in the country. This would take acute hunger in Sudan to record levels.
A United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) dike rehabilitation project is helping families to return home and build resilience against the climate crisis.
In the past few weeks, fighting between military groups in Sudan has resulted in multiple civilian injuries and casualties. This sudden burst of conflict might be surprising, but it’s just the latest in a complex of history of war in Sudan. We’ll briefly explain what’s happening in Sudan, the history of how the conflict got here and how it’s affecting Sudanese civilians.
In regions around the world, the climate crisis is causing more frequent and intense extreme weather events. From droughts to hurricanes to floods, these climate extremes are driving more people into severe hunger and poverty.
As reported by David Muir on ABC, the people of South Sudan are suffering from historic, overlapping drought and floods caused by the climate change.
Prices of staple foods are soaring in Malawi, ten days after Tropical Cyclone Freddy made its second passage over the southern African country.