Latest World Food Programme News
'No safe place to go to from Goma' for millions as humanitarian crisis looms in eastern Congo city
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Bodies are lying on the streets. Medical staff in overwhelmed hospitals are treating hundreds of wounded civilians against the backdrop of gunfire and explosions. Electricity, water and internet access are cut off, and medical and food warehouses are being looted. ...
UN food agency says some donors are hesitant to fund urgent Syrian aid under the new authorities
DAMASCUS (AP) — Some governments are hesitant to boost funding for urgent humanitarian needs in Syria under the country's new interim rulers after the fall of former President Bashar Assad, the director of the U.N. World Food Program said Tuesday. WFP chief Cindy McCain said...
As flooding becomes a yearly disaster in South Sudan, thousands survive on the edge of a canal
AYOD, South Sudan (AP) — Long-horned cattle wade through flooded lands and climb a slope along a canal that has become a refuge for displaced families in South Sudan. Smoke from burning dung rises near homes of mud and grass where thousands of people now live after floods swept away their...
UN food agency says 40 million people are struggling to feed themselves in West and Central Africa
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — More than 40 million people are now struggling to feed themselves across West and Central Africa with that number set to rise to 52 million by the middle of next year, the United Nations food agency said Friday. According to a new report released Friday, the...
