The WFP, part of the United Nations, every year adds a number of full-time professionals and short-term consultants to its staff of just over 10,000. The organisation is based in Rome, but 90 per ...

Item 1 of 2 Hsiao-Wei Lee, Afghanistan country director for World Food Programme (WFP), speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 20, 2023. REUTERS/Sayed Hassib/File Photo ...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today joined other senior United Nations officials on the eve of International Women’s Day in highlighting the potential of rural women to improve the well-being of ...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is planning a food relief programme targeting 700,000 people in Zimbabwe from October as the effects of a poor harvest and the Ukraine war continue to ...

According to WFP's website, the U.N. agency had received just $1.57 billion in funding up until March 24. For the whole of 2024, WFP received $9.75 billion, well below the $21.1 billion it had sought.

Last year, WFP reached more than 97 million people in 80 countries with food assistance. In 2012, WFP Lao PDR provided over 3,200 metric tons of food to more than 225,000 people throughout the ...

As of August 2022, WFP estimated over 36 million people in Afghanistan, around 90% of the population, lacked sufficient food, after the the Taliban takeover prompted the US and other countries to ...

Shaun Hughes, the WFP's regional emergency coordinator, speaking via video link from the Kenyan capital Nairobi during a press conference held in Geneva, also warned that the program's operations for ...