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More headquarters in New York. The World Food Program says it’s planning to nearly quadruple the number of people that the U.N. agency helps in four central American countries affected by ...
The executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme is urging that more aid be allowed into Gaza as Israel continues its renewed offensive on the territory. “Right now, we have 500,000 ...
As of September, 10 million Afghans have lost assistance from the UN’s World Food Programme this year, the organization announced this week. They had to cut food assistance from 2 million people ...
KAKUMA, Kenya — Martin Komol sighs as he inspects his cracked, mud-walled house that is one rain away from fully collapsing.
The World Food Programme is freezing employee movement in Gaza after one of its vehicles was targeted with repeated gunfire just meters from an Israeli checkpoint, according to a statement by the ...
The U.N. World Food Programme is at the center of confronting those challenges. Nick Schifrin spoke with its new executive director, Cindy McCain. The world faces a food crisis as some 345 million ...
A logo of the World Food Programme humanitarian organization is seen on a plane at the National Airport Minsk, Belarus April 19, 2018. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab ...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and 11 other impoverished countries ...
And the World Food Programme is only able to support 3 million people due to a massive funding shortfall. ... The U.S. has frozen billions of dollars in Afghan assets in New York.
The United Nations World Food Programme is by far the largest international organization fighting hunger. It reports that it served more than 100 million people in 2024. FIve years ago, it won the ...
ROME, Dec. 11, 2023— Against a backdrop of record food insecurity across the globe, the World Bank and the World Food Programme (WFP) agreed today to deepen their partnership in several priority areas ...
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has lifted a pause on food donations, the U.N. World Food Programme said, ending a suspension that an aid watchdog on Monday warned had left ...