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Sixty Seconds With... AfroCongo music star Innoss’B: School meals, ending hunger and DRC

The singer-songwriter – and World Food Programme High-Level Supporter – on dreaming big against the odds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

By WFP

Humanitarian Aid

UN pledges to ‘remain engaged and committed’ amid attempted coup in Niger

UN News

a cargo flight from WFP’s newly established Global Humanitarian Response Hub in Liège, Belgium arrived in Burkina Faso carrying almost 16 metric tons of medical cargo and personal protective equipment like masks and gloves on behalf of UNICEF and the Inte

coronavirus

WFP: Without funds, ‘no choice’ but to suspend most aid flights

By WFP

Children at an internally displaced persons camp in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.

coronavirus

Conflict-hit Nigerian families living under COVID-19 lockdowns, on ‘life-support’

UN News

Humanitarian aid being prepared by workers for loading next to airplane.

coronavirus

COVID-19: Humanitarian air deliveries to Africa ramped up with dispatch from UN's new cargo hub in Belgium

By WFP

Zambia's withered grain fields: Does genetically modified relief food pose health risks? Photo: ?WFP / Brenda Barton

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Controversy rages over 'GM' food aid

Zambia, citing health concerns, bars genetically modified grain

Child sitting amidst sacks of relief grain in Lesotho: Emergency aid is vital, but “just shipping in food is not enough,” says UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan: Poverty and other causes of famine must also be addressed. Photograph: WFP / R. Lee

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Famine spreads across Africa

With 38 million facing starvation, “business as usual will not do”

By Ernest Harsch

The UN Secretary-General has appointed former Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy as his special envoy to help resolve the border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea

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By Africa Renewal

As schools reopen across Guinea, WFP is resuming its school meals programme in all four regions of the country.

News

UN agency expands meals programme to more than 1,600 schools across Guinea

UN News

Une distribution de nourriture du PAM dans l’école primaire de St. Matthew, dans le district de Chikwawa, au Malawi, le pays le plus touché d’Afrique australe par l’insécurité alimentaire. Photo : PAM / David Orr

News

UN agencies expand operations in southern Africa as poor harvests deepen food insecurity

UN News

People gather at Mikolongo school in Chikwawa district, Malawi, to receive rations of maize, pulses, oil and fortified corn soya blend from WFP to prevent malnutrition.

News

Malawi facing worst food crisis in decade, requires $81 million in relief aid – UN agency

UN News

Un travailleur de santé mesure le bras d’un petit gar?on pour évaluer son état nutritionnel à Juba, au Soudan du Sud. Photo UNICEF/Christine Nesbitt

News

UN agencies boost effort to avoid ‘catastrophic loss’ of young children’s lives in South Sudan

UN News

People in conflict-affected areas of South Sudan collect food from WFP. Photo: WFP/Peter Testuzza

News

UN humanitarian agencies reach thousands of South Sudanese cut off for months

UN News

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