Programs: Emergencies
Hunger is often the first emergency when catastrophe strikes. That’s why the United Nations World Food Programme is among the first humanitarian organizations on the ground to help hungry families in crisis.
As fighting escalates in the south and center of Gaza, the toll on civilians is devastating, and the continued hostile operating environment make it near-impossible for humanitarian operations to deliver desperately needed food aid, warned WFP Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau.
The United Nations World Food Programme is urgently expanding its emergency food and nutrition assistance in war-torn Sudan amid the looming threat of famine, as conditions for civilians deteriorate and fighting intensifies in battle zones like El Fasher and Khartoum
Acute food insecurity is set to increase in magnitude and severity in 18 hunger “Hotspots," a new United Nations early warning report has revealed today.
After more than two months of blockages due to violent clashes between armed groups, WFP has made important progress, delivering truckloads of food to the highly vulnerable neighborhood of Cité Soleil in Haiti.
Millions of people are facing food insecurity due to El Niño-fueled drought and floods in southern Africa, WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain warned during a visit to Zambia.
WFP warns that the devastating floods that struck the northeastern and northwestern regions of Afghanistan in the past two weeks, impacting more than 80,000 people, are likely to intensify in the coming months, with a significant impact on food security.
WFP warns that the window to save lives is closing as famine looms in Sudan’s war-torn regions with civilians trapped by intensified fighting in northern Darfur, the rainy season set to start in the coming month, and as the lean season hits.
WFP warns that time is running out to prevent starvation in Darfur as intensifying clashes in North Darfur’s capital El Fasher hinder efforts to deliver vital food assistance into the region.
WFP Goodwill Ambassador and multi-platinum global recording artist Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye is allocating another $2 million from his XO Humanitarian Fund toward WFP’s humanitarian response efforts in Gaza.
WFP has managed to bring desperately needed food and nutrition supplies into Darfur. Yet, the U.N. food agency warns that unless the people of Sudan receive a constant flow of aid via all possible humanitarian corridors, the country’s hunger catastrophe will only worsen.
On behalf of the entire WFP USA community, I want to express my outrage and deep sorrow upon hearing that seven World Central Kitchen humanitarian workers were killed yesterday by an airstrike in Gaza. This is an unacceptable loss.
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.