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Zambia has faced growing climate challenges—from floods to prolonged droughts—impacting crops and deepening food insecurity. In this five-part series, follow a United Nations World Food Programme ...
The organization claimed that 90,000 people are suffering from malnutrition, and nine people have died from it within the ...
David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Program: It's a very serious problem. And it's a very serious problem all over the world, Nick. And we're facing an unprecedented food crisis ...
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 World Food Programme is the world’s leading humanitarian organization fighting hunger and promoting food security. Founded in 1961, the UN branch aided 97 million people around the world ...
World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize The Rome-based United Nations agency has long specialized in getting assistance to some of the world’s most dangerous and precarious places and ...
A Yemeni boy receives humanitarian aid donated by the World Food Program in Taez, Yemen, on Saturday. (Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP/Getty Images) Last week, the Norwegian Nobel Committee named this year’s ...
The World Food Program delivery, containing food for 25,000 people, was the first since Oct. 7 to go directly from Israel into the northern Gaza Strip, where many people are at risk of ...
The World Food Program, the lead agency supplying food in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, says it has delivered more than 3 million meals, but some have criticized how long the U.N. agency it took ...
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) states that it will close half of its health clinics in Nigeria’s conflict-torn ...