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The scale of global hunger presents a stark and urgent challenge to humanity. In recent years, the situation has worsened, ...
WFP officials warn that unless immediate, large-scale assistance is mobilized, communities in conflict-affected areas of ...
Fighting in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State is pushing people into famine, according to the United Nations food agency.
The spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday said the World Food Programme (WFP) has begun ...
The world’s most desperate countries are falling further and further behind, their plight worsened by conflicts that are ...
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it was France that asked for French President Emmanuel Macron to speak by phone with ...
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 ...
U.N. WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CINDY MCCAIN: Good morning. MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about a few hotspots in Africa, but let's start first on the Middle East if we could.
The charity founded by the celebrity chef José Andrés has started preparing meals again. It halted activities when food ...
BATRAWY: The U.N. World Food Programme has been warning for weeks supplies in Gaza are running out. A month ago, its 25 bakeries in Gaza shut down because there was no more flour or cooking gas ...
Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Sudanese refugees, who have fled the violence in their country, line up to receive food rations from World Food Programme (WFP) in Adre, Chad July 20, 2023.
The U.N.'s World Food Programme says 28 million people face crisis and emergency levels of food insecurity. The program's executive director, Cindy McCain, is in DRC, and she joins us now.