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Fighting in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State is pushing people into famine, according to the United Nations food agency.
Item 1 of 4 Humanitarian workers and passengers disembark from a United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) helicopter managed by the World Food Programme (WFP), painted in orange colour as ...
In this file photo, World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain is preparing to take a helicopter from Port-au-Prince to the city of Jeremie during a June 2023 visit to Haiti.
World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain preparing to take a helicopter from Port-au-Prince to the city of Jeremie during a June 2023 visit to Haiti. On Thursday, September 24, 2024 the ...
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 drought, seen as one of the drivers ...
The World Food Programme has run out of food, the United Nations agency said Friday, 54 days after Israel imposed a complete blockade on the Gaza Strip. “Today, WFP delivered its last remaining ...
The U.N. World Food Program plans to cut its staff by a third. Donations from Europe and Britain have flagged, and cuts by the Trump administration forced the humanitarian organization to downsize.
GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. World Food Programme said on Monday that Israeli forces had opened fire on one of its convoys in the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza in what it called a "horrifying ...
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 ...
DAKAR, Sept 2 (Reuters) - A United Nations helicopter crashed on Friday morning as it was flying over east Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said.
A World Food Program's flag flutters on the roof of WFP's headquaters after the WFP won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, in Rome, Italy October 9, 2020. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo.
Late on Wednesday, the U.N. World Food Programme, the largest humanitarian operator in Somalia, said the helicopter did not belong to it or the U.N. Humanitarian Air Service and that none of its ...