WFP

The first UN-chartered vessel set to transport grain from Ukraine under a deal to relieve a global food crisis should dock in Ukraine on Friday, the United Nations said. The MV Brave Commander, which left Istanbul...

The World Bank released $100 million Thursday for the World Food Programme to tackle “deep food insecurity” for two million people in Sudan, where aid was suspended following an October coup. The funds will help provide...

The head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, has warned the conflict in Ukraine could send global food prices soaring, with a catastrophic impact on the world’s poorest. Ukraine and Russia are both major exporters...

Bangladesh has been overwhelmingly elected as the president of the Rome-based World Food Programme’s (WFP) 36-member Executive Board for the year 2022. Md Shameem Ahsan, Bangladesh’s Ambassador to Italy and Permanent Representative to the FAO, IFAD,...

WFP’s ability to offer crucial monthly food aid to half a million Jordanian refugees has been hampered by a lack of cash. Due to a lack of money, the World Food Programme (WFP) had to suspend...

Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in a ceremony held online because of the coronavirus, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned Thursday of a “hunger pandemic” it said could be worse than Covid-19. “Because of so many...

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize from the Norwegian capital Oslo on Friday. The...

Economic shocks, conflict, floods, desert locusts and now COVID-19 are making a storm that could reverse hard-earned food security gains in Yemen, warns the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released by the Food and...

The United States Government has announced 8 million in food aid to help the poor in Dhaka’s urban areas meet the challenge of COVID-19. This funding is part of the 43 million USD provided by the...

The Corona epidemic puts forty million people in South and Central America and the Caribbean at risk of food insecurity. The United Nations on Tuesday called for urgent action to stem the tide of hunger. The...