Fighting in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State is pushing people into famine, according to the United Nations food agency.

WFP officials warn that unless immediate, large-scale assistance is mobilized, communities in conflict-affected areas of ...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) began airdropping emergency food assistance to thousands of families in South Sudan's Upper Nile State, where surging conflict since March has forced ...

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it was France that asked for French President Emmanuel Macron to speak by phone with ...

The unstable east African nation has seen a drastic uptick in violence since simmering rivalry between President Salva Kiir ...

The world’s most desperate countries are falling further and further behind, their plight worsened by conflicts that are ...

The United Nations World Food Programme is by far the largest international organization fighting hunger. It reports that it served more than 100 million people in 2024. FIve years ago, it won the ...

U.N. WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CINDY MCCAIN: Good morning. MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about a few hotspots in Africa, but let's start first on the Middle East if we could.

BATRAWY: The U.N. World Food Programme has been warning for weeks supplies in Gaza are running out. A month ago, its 25 bakeries in Gaza shut down because there was no more flour or cooking gas ...

The U.N.'s World Food Programme says 28 million people face crisis and emergency levels of food insecurity. The program's executive director, Cindy McCain, is in DRC, and she joins us now.

A World Food Program's flag flutters on the roof of WFP's headquaters after the WFP won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, in Rome, Italy October 9, 2020.