Heading home: DRC’s conflict-displaced face spiking hunger and smashed lives
Stories & Blogs WFPApr 02, 2025(Story )As new findings show record-high hunger in Africa’s second-largest country, a severe funding crunch and insecurity hamper WFP’s efforts to reach tens of thousands of desperate people in the northeast
WFP races to support new Congolese arrivals in Burundi as aid operations become stretched to the limit
Stories & Blogs WFPMar 24, 2025(WFP News )The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has rapidly mobilized additional assistance in Burundi to support the large influx of families fleeing violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Millions in Central Sahel and Nigeria at risk of food cuts as the World Food Programme faces severe funding crisis
Stories & Blogs WFPMar 07, 2025(News )The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warns that life-saving food and nutrition assistance in Central Sahel and Nigeria will halt in April 2025 without urgent funding.
$6 Billion Needed to Support Nearly 21 Million Sudanese Facing Humanitarian Crisis of Staggering Scale, Brutality, Secretary-General Says Tells Aid Conference
Stories & Blogs ECAFeb 14, 2025(Press Release )The partnership between the United Nations and the African Union has never been stronger. Together, we see an Africa brimming with hope and possibility.
Secretary-General's Remarks at High-level Humanitarian Conference for the People of Sudan.
Stories & Blogs ECAFeb 14, 2025(Story )“Now the international community must show the same level of support to the Sudanese people in their moment of despair as the Sudanese people once showed to their neighbours in distress”. Said Antonio Guterres, Un Secretary General.
Children in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo increasingly exposed to sexual violence, abduction and recruitment – UNICEF
Stories & Blogs FAOFeb 13, 2025(Press Release )Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell
WFP welcomes contribution from Japan to save lives in war-torn Sudan.
Stories & Blogs WFPFeb 13, 2025(News )WFP welcomes a contribution of JPY 150 million (approx. US $1 million) from the Government of Japan for its operations in Sudan.
WFP announces major surge in food aid into Sudan's hard-to-reach areas
Stories & Blogs WFPNov 22, 2024(Announcement )The UN World Food Programme (WFP) today announced a surge in its operations across Sudan, part of a scale-up effort to reach millions of people in the country’s most needy and isolated conflict areas.
No relief from food insecurity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as a quarter of the population continue to face hunger
Stories & Blogs WFPNov 21, 2024(News )There are 25.6 million people who continue to face crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report.
WFP responds to devastating floods in Mali that have affected 350,000 people.
Stories & Blogs WFPOct 29, 2024(News )The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is ramping up its lifesaving response to people affected by the devastating floods in Mali.