food aid

The sun sets on Kabul, Afghanistan.
Unsplash/Matt Brown

News in Brief 10 September 2021

10 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan: Taliban violence against protesters increasing, warns OHCHR
  • Hungry Afghans resort to extreme coping strategies to feed families
  • Human rights abuses intensify in eastern DR Congo: UNHCR
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United Nations

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Afghanistan, DR Congo, Tigray and Yemen

8 September 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In this week’s show, aid to Afghanistan in the international spotlight, a deadly bacterial meningitis alert in northeastern DR Congo, Yemen’s “unbearable” war drags on, and alarming developments in northern Ethiopia, where the “hungry season” has started, as conflict escalates across Tigray’s borders.

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Food and blankets are handed out to people in need in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. UNHCR warned that the world cannot allow this “to become a humanitarian catastrophe”
© WFP/Arete

News in Brief 8 September 2021

8 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan suffering, 'unimaginable' says UN chief
  • Yemen: climate of fear has worsened, all sides to blame - rights experts
  • DR Congo declares deadly meningitis outbreak in troubled northeast
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A Somali resident sells meat at a market in Hudur, where food shortages continue to cause suffering.
UN Photo/Tobin Jones

News in Brief 11 August 2021

11 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Somali hunger crisis leaves 800,000 children on the brink
  • Human rights protection call for Yezidi activist in Armenia
  • Race is on to stop deadly Marburg virus in its tracks: WHO
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The UN humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths (left) meets a couple whose house was destroyed in Hawzen, Tigray.
UNOCHA/Saviano Abreu

News in Brief 6 August 2021

6 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Tigray ceasefire more urgent than ever, says UN relief chief Griffiths
  • Myanmar’s third COVID-19 wave hitting like a ‘tsunami": WFP
  • Mali violence threatens country’s survival, UN expert warns
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A mother holds her one-year-old son, who is suffering from malnutrition, at a health centre in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia.
© UNICEF/Mulugeta Ayene

News in Brief 30 July 2021

30 July 2021
News in Brief
  • 100,000 children in Tigray at risk of death from malnutrition: UNICEF
  • Mercenaries must leave Libya to pave way for peace, elections – UN experts
  • Rights expert urges governments to crack down on hate speech and crimes targeting Roma
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Children at an IDP camp in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.
UNICEF/Mauricio Bisol

News in Brief 6 July 2021

6 July 2021
News in Brief
  • Displacement crisis driving up hunger in northern Mozambique: WFP
  • OHCHR voices ‘deep concern’ over protesters’ deaths in Eswatini
  • Iran urged to end long-term detention to ‘silence’ rights defenders
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Yeshialem Gebreegziabher, 27, holds her daughter, Kalkidan Yeman, 6 months old, who is suffering from malnutrition at Aby Adi Health center in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia
© UNICEF

News in Brief 2 July 2021

2 July 2021
News in Brief
  • WFP resumes effort to reach 2 million in Tigray with emergency aid
  • Top Guatemala judges facing threats, must be protected urges UN expert
  • More than 2 million children’s lives being ‘torn apart’ in Niger, says UNICEF
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The World Food Programme provides poor and food insecure families in Gaza with electronic food vouchers which give them access to local products (file photo).
WFP/Wissam Nassar

WFP moves to support families affected by Gaza violence 

17 May 2021
Humanitarian Aid

Responding to rising humanitarian needs brought about by the escalation of conflict in the Gaza Strip, the World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday began providing emergency assistance to support families, amid fears of low food stocks and rising prices. 

Retired WFP staff member Tun Myat (right) meets the Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed at an airstrip in Bardera, Somalia in September 1992.
Tun Myat

FROM THE FIELD: Warlords and warehouses; reflections of retired Myanmar WFP staffer

26 December 2020
Humanitarian Aid

Negotiating with warlords in Somalia and rebels in the South Sudanese bush, and salvaging food from the chaos of the port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, was once routine for a retired staff member of the World Food Programme (WFP) from Myanmar.