Over 13,000 disabled people in the West Bank town of Hebron are receiving cash grants thanks to an initiative involving the United Nations World Food Programme, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the International Labour Organization, and the Palestinian social development ministry.
The United Nations World Food Programme has called for unimpeded access to families trapped in encircled cities and conflict zones in Ukraine, which is now the world's fastest-growing humanitarian crisis.
On the ninth day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the UN World Food Programme voiced grave concern at the dwindling ability of families in conflict zones to get enough food, warning the war could drive global hunger to new levels and impact millions of people far beyond the country's borders.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and World Food Programme have launched a project to improve the diet of school-aged children with support from Germany's agriculture ministry (BMEL), FAO announced in a statement.
The foreign ministry said Wednesday it hopes that Rome prosecutors will get "maximum cooperation" from the UN World Food Programme, after two of its officials were accused of playing a role in the 2021 killing of Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio.
Almost 40 percent of people in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray province are severely hungry while a record 9 million plus in the country's north need emergency food aid, the UN World Food Programme warned on Friday, calling for US$337 to fund its operations in the region over the next six months.
A US$ 3.5 million contribution from the European Union helped UN World Food Programme- managed airlifts of over 60,000 aid workers to areas of West and Central Africa last year, Rome-based WFP said Friday in a statement.
The UN World Food Programme in Iran has welcomed a one million pound donation from the United Kingdom to help vulnerable refugees in Iran, Rome-headquartered WFP said in a statement on Monday.
The United Nations World Food Programme's life-saving food assistance operations in northern Ethiopia are about to grind to a halt because intense fighting has blocked the passage of fuel and food, WFP warned on Friday.
The UN World Food Programme has warned it is running out of funds to keep helping nourish the neediest in war-wracked Yemen and will be cutting food aid to eight million people next month.
As crucial UN climate talks get underway in Glasgow, over 1.1 million people have been suffering acute hunger in southern Madagascar while 14,000 there face famine, the World Food Programme warned on Tuesday, calling for 69 million dollars of emergency funds.
The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service has resumed flights to Kabul, enabling humanitarian workers and badly needed relief items to reach desperate Afghans across the country in a "turning point", the UN World Food Programme said on Tuesday.
The United Nations Word Food Programme and World Health Organisation on Monday unveiled an innovative joint project aimed at improving humanitarian responses to health emergencies.
Il rapporto di cinque Agenzie Onu, fino a 811 mln di persone erano sottoalimentate nel 2020. Il maggior incremento in Africa
The United Nations World Food Programme has moved its first food supplies to its logistics hub in Maracaibo, northwest Venezuela, as it gets ready to launch a school meals programme for vulnerable school children and school employees in the country, Rome-based WFP said Thursday.
Italy has given a million euros to help the UN World Food Programme provide nutritious snacks to pupils in crisis-hit Lebanon, where schools have been closed for months during the Coronavirus pandemic, WFP said on Wednesday, thanking Italy for its generosity.
The United Nations World Food Programme is to mount a new food assistance operation that aims to target 2 million vulnerable people in the poor townships in Myanmar’s main cities and other areas of the country where people have fled their homes.
