A country torn apart by civil war could soon face one of the world’s worst famines in decades, experts said. By Declan Walsh and Ivor Prickett Page 2 of 10 ...

The World Food Programme, which won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, delivered food to 97 million people last year. The United Nations agency, created as an experiment in 1961 after a request ...

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 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 United Nations’ World Food Programme has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its work to combat hunger around the world, beating favorites Greta Thunberg and the World Health Organization ...

Former SC Gov. David Beasley said he does not believe most people are aware of the daunting task his organization, the World Food Programme, faces in addressing world hunger amidst wars, climate ...

In recent years, the situation has worsened, driven by a “perfect storm of conflict, climate change, and COVID,” according to the director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP ...

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.

The Rome-based World Food Program was established in 1961 at the behest of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower and has brought aid to multiple crises, including Ethiopia’s famine of 1984, the Asian ...

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 ...

More than a million people in Myanmar will be cut off from life-saving food assistance provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) from next month because of critical shortfalls in funding, the ...