Afghan mother Raqiba Ahmadi struggles daily to feed six children as worsening hunger and funding cuts threaten vital nutrition assistance.
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UN agencies warn that 2.2 million young children are suffering from acute malnutrition, and 7.8 million people are at risk of hunger.
A is driving up fuel and food costs worldwide, pushing millions closer to hunger as disrupted supply chains hit the most vulnerable communities hardest.
War, hunger, and displacement continue devastating millions in Sudan, as aid struggles to keep pace with worsening humanitarian needs and funding gaps.
Global shipping disruptions, including closures of the and rerouting via the Cape of Good Hope, are delaying food aid, raising costs, and reducing assistance.
Reduced WFP food assistance in Uganda has plunged refugees like Namahirwe and her nine children into hunger and hardship, threatening both their survival and long-term self-reliance.
Standing on top of a towering anthill in the arid fields of northeastern Somalia, 10-year-old Farah and his mother, Safiya Maxamed, cover their faces from the sun, as they keep watch over their handful of goats feeding off a pile of thorny branches. Out of their one hundred goats, only five have survived three consecutive failed rainy seasons. Families who once relied on livestock have lost nearly everything, forcing them to cut meals or flee. Around 6.5 million people face severe hunger, nearly double in a year. Although aid from the World Food Programme previously prevented famine, reduced funding now limits help. Urgent international support is needed to scale up food assistance and prevent another humanitarian catastrophe.
For thousands of students in Uganda’s Karamoja region, Teacher Evaline Akello is more than a teacher, she’s proof that their dreams are possible.
Evaline once sat where they sit now, a hungry child relying on the World Food Programme (WFP) school meals to stay in class. Today, her students see in her story a powerful message: with food, education and determination, their futures can be bigger than the challenges they face. Evaline's journey shows how one simple meal can .
In Gaza’s makeshift classrooms, fortified snacks and nutrition support are helping children regain stability, return to learning and remember that their role is to grow, dream and be children again.
In Kyrgyzstan’s rugged Batken Province, 70-year-old farmer Urinisa Tillabaeva is proving that tough land can still grow bright futures. With a new greenhouse, drip irrigation, and hands-on training, she no longer waits out the long winter months—she harvests beyond the traditional season, boosting yields and turning tomatoes into steady income for her family. As a leader in a local women’s farming group, Urinisa Tillabaevais helping her community trade uncertainty for resilience—growing more and wasting less. She is among 4,500 farmers participating in a new World Food Programme () project aimed at boosting incomes and diets and adapting to deepening weather extremes in one of Central Asia’s most climate-vulnerable countries.
With two confirmed famines in 2025 and 318 million people facing severe food insecurity in 2026, WFP warns that conflict, funding cuts, and climate shocks are driving unprecedented humanitarian crises.
By using anticipatory action and trigger-based early warnings, WFP is able to deliver timely cash and food assistance to millions, reducing the impact of disasters like and before they escalate.
The World Food Programme is racing to support Jamaica as approaches, threatening catastrophic flooding, landslides, and widespread destruction across the island.
Deliveries of fresh flatbread in Gaza reach the population, offering a sense of normality as the ceasefire takes hold. The bakeries offer a tangible sign that a precarious normality is returning. The loaves rolling out of their fiery ovens are part of a massive and rapid scale-up of WFP food assistance for people facing severe and even catastrophic hunger - with the aim of feeding up to 1.6 million in the first three months. Trucks of food assistance now entering the Strip are supporting bakeries, nutrition programmes and general food distributions. Those distributions will expand as conditions allow more food to enter the Strip and bakeries to reopen. Tens of thousands of metric tonnes of our food are ready for dispatch or heading to the Strip. “The smell of bread gives people hope that things are going to get back to normal,” says Samer Abdeljaber, WFP Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa & Eastern Europe. As more food reaches hungry people, he adds, “anxiety levels go down, so they can trust that more food is going to come in the next days.”
reveal that deep humanitarian aid cuts threaten millions with hunger and loss of lifesaving support, putting six critical operations at highest risk.