World Food Programme
4 Jan
Nigerians may witness tough times in the new year, as prices of staple foods such as rice, maize, millet, and cereals, are projected to rise in the country and other West African nations.
12 Sep 2023
The World Food Programme said Tuesday that shrinking funding was forcing it to drastically slash rations in many operations, warning that 24 million more people risked being pushed to the brink of starvation. The United Nations agency said it had been struggling to meet growing global needs for food assistance while facing a funding shortfall…
30 Jul 2023
Africa has the potential to become the breadbasket for the world. The continent possesses an embarrassment of riches in natural resources, including fertile soil, ample water, and more sunlight than any other continent.
22 Jul 2023
Authorities in Yemen have identified a suspect in the killing of a World Food Programme official in the southern Taez province, a security official has told AFP. Moayad Hameidi, the head of the UN food agency's office in Taez, was killed in a shooting Friday in the nearby city of Turbah, the Rome-based WFP has…
13 Jul 2023
United Nations food intervention agency, World Food Programme, (WFP), has renewed its commitment with the National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA), to offer raid good security inventions training and to assist vulnerable Nigeria that were affected by man-made disaster in Cameroon who are taking refuge there.
6 Jul 2023
The decision by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to slash population of its proposed emergency food and nutrition assistance operation in the Sahel due to funding crunch may have exposed 5.4 million West Africans to imminent starvation.
19 May 2023
To prevent catastrophic hunger and malnutrition in northeast Nigeria, $396 million is urgently needed to scale up humanitarian action in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) states.
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