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World Food Programme boss criticises northwestern Syrian authorities for slowing quake aid
By John Irish MUNICH, Feb 18 (Reuters) - The head of the World Food Programme (WFP) on Saturday pressured authorities in northwestern Syria to stop blocking access to the area…
UN cutting refugee rations in Africa’s Sahel amid ‘alarming’ food insecurity
GENEVA, May 20 (Reuters) - Food rations for refugees and displaced people are being cut by up to half in parts of…
With Ukraine farmers on frontlines, U.N. food chief warns of ‘devastation’
The U.N. food chief warned that the war in Ukraine was threatening to devastate the World Food Programme's efforts to feed some…
Millions facing severe hunger in Horn of Africa – U.N. food agency
The U.N. World Food Programme said that 13 million people across the Horn of Africa face severe hunger, calling for immediate assistance…
WFP warns of countdown to catastrophe as acute hunger reaches new peak
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the number of people teetering on the edge of famine in 43…
WFP institutes further cuts on food rations for refugees in Kenya as funds dry up
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is further cutting food rations for 440,000 refugees in Kenya, due to severe funding shortfalls,…
Nearly a million going hungry in conflict-hit Mozambique, U.N. says
Almost one million people face severe hunger in northern Mozambique, where hundreds of thousands have fled Islamist militant attacks, the United Nations…
U.N. warns world is facing ‘famine of biblical proportions’ because of coronavirus
The world is facing widespread famine “of biblical proportions” because of the coronavirus pandemic, the chief of the UN’s food relief agency…
Severe food insecurity alert for 45 million people across Southern Africa
Forty-five million people in southern Africa are expected to face severe food insecurity in the next six months as the worst drought…
Monsoon destroys Rohingya shelters, sparking record UN emergency food agency response in Bangladesh
Unusually heavy monsoon rains have inundated shelters in refugee camps in southern Bangladesh creating “havoc”, the World Food Programme (WFP) said, as…