World Food Programme

Recurring Floods In South Sudan Displace Refugees And Host Communiti
South Sudan
MENA
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Almost 7.7 million in South Sudan face 'crisis' hunger levels

Nearly 7.7 million in South Sudan face crisis-level hunger amid conflict, aid cuts, and cholera, with violence blocking WFP food access in hard-hit Upper Nile.

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
09 April, 2025
Displaced Yemenis receive humanitarian aid provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) in the city of Taiz on September 11, 2023
Yemen
MENA
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UN announces death of aid worker imprisoned by Yemen's Houthis

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
12 February, 2025
A man transports a box of humanitarian aid, supplied by the World Food Program, back to his home in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 18, 2024. (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images)
Gaza War
MENA
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UN races to feed one million Gazans after truce

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
19 January, 2025
Humanitarian aid trucks enter Gaza
Gaza War
MENA
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World Food Programme condemns Israeli attack on its Gaza convoy

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 January, 2025
Gaza War
MENA
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WFP pauses staff movement in Gaza after Israel strikes vehicle

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 August, 2024
Gaza War
MENA
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New routes planned for halted Gaza aid from US-built pier

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
22 May, 2024
Darfur
MENA
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Violence shuts crucial aid corridor into Sudan's Darfur: WFP

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 May, 2024
The Weeknd
Palestine
MENA
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The Weeknd donates $2.5m to WFP's Gaza response

The New Arab Staff
03 December, 2023
United Nations
MENA
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UN agency chiefs urge Gaza ceasefire in rare joint statement

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 November, 2023
Cox’s Bazar camp in Bangladesh
Rohingya
Society
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Rohingya pregnant women and children suffer amid food cuts

The New Arab Staff

Louis Regan

24 August, 2023
Yemen
MENA
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UN says forced to cut Yemen rations, compounding food crisis

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
18 August, 2023
Yemen
MENA
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Yemen: Officer probing assassination of WFP chief killed

The New Arab Staff
16 August, 2023
Palestine
MENA
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WFP to suspend aid to Palestinians due to funding shortage

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 May, 2023
56 dead in Sudan
United Nations
World
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Sudan: UN condemns killing of 3 World Food Programme staff

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 April, 2023
Syria
MENA
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WFP boss criticises northwest Syria authorities for slowing quake aid

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
18 February, 2023
US WFP grain
hunger starvation
World
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US buys Ukrainian grain to support humanitarian aid: WFP

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
20 August, 2022
Horn of Africa
World
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22 million facing starvation in Horn of Africa, WFP says

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
19 August, 2022
A man receiving food from the World Food Programme in Yemen
Yemen
MENA
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Yemen facing growing hunger, economic collapse amid war: UN

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
12 January, 2022
A truck with the World Food Programme logo on it
Sudan
MENA
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World Food Programme stops work in Sudan's North Darfur

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
31 December, 2021
Sudan
MENA
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Sudan gunmen loot UN food aid warehouse in troubled Darfur

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 December, 2021
World Food Programme
Yemen
MENA
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UN reduces food rations for war-torn Yemen

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
22 December, 2021