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Trucks carrying aid packages from the World Food Program (WFP) drive through the town of Saraqib in the northwestern Idlib province
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UN food agency halves Syria food aid, halts bread subsidy

US President Trump's administration has slashed its foreign aid to agencies like the World Food Programme, impacting millions in Syria.

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
13 May, 2026
Food is distributed to displaced familes at a displacement centre in a school housing hundreds of displaced families fleeing fighting in the South of Lebanon
Lebanon
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WFP warns Lebanon facing food security crisis due Israeli war

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 April, 2026
Smoke rises from the site of airstrikes in a central area of the Iranian capital Tehran on March 6, 2026.
US-Israel war on Iran
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Iran war chokes aid corridors, obstructing global relief efforts

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 March, 2026
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Yemen
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UN food agency shutting down operations in rebel-held N. Yemen

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 January, 2026
Afghanistan's Health Crisis Deepens In The Aftermath Of USAID Cuts
Afghanistan
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Malnutrition having 'harrowing' impact on Afghan women: WFP

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 January, 2026
A delegation led by World Food Programme Mogadishu Office Director El Khidir Daloum conducts a field visit to assess the food crisis at a camp for internally displaced people within the boundaries of Mogadishu, Somalia, on December 14, 2025
Somalia
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Somalia, US relations hit low point as Washington suspends aid

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
08 January, 2026
Food distribution to Palestinians struggling with starvation in Gaza
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UN: Food supply improving in Gaza since truce but long way to go

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
21 November, 2025
The public market in the Nuseirat Camp comes back to life after months of restrictions, in Gaza on October 29, 2025.
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UN warns of deepening hunger crisis amid funding squeeze

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
18 November, 2025
Palestinians receive food packages distributed by the World Food Programme (WFP) in the Zawaida area of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip following the implementation of the ceasefire on October 23, 2025. (Photo by Hassan Jedi/Anadolu via Getty
Gaza ceasefire deal
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Food flows into Gaza still far below targets: WFP

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
23 October, 2025
A member of security forces loyal to Yemen's Houthis stands guard while behind a giant screen shows an address by the Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi
Yemen
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Yemen's Houthis detain at least 11 WFP staff in Sanaa, Hodeidah

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
01 September, 2025
Cindy McCain has said she has seen people starving in Gaza
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UN food agency chief: women and children are starving in Gaza

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 August, 2025
January 24, 2025. At the Gharb Al Matta IDP site in Kassala, Sudan.
Sudan civil war
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World Food Programme aid convoy attacked in Sudan's Darfur

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
20 August, 2025
Cholera-infected patients receive treatment in the cholera isolation centre at the refugee camps of western Sudan, in Tawila city
Sudan
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Shelling by Sudan's RSF kills 17 in besieged Darfur city

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
17 August, 2025
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Gaza famine
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Son Heung-min joins WFP aid appeal as Israel starves Gaza

The New Arab Staff
27 July, 2025
Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, a 1.5-year-old child in Gaza City, Gaza, faces life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade, on July 21, 2025.
Gaza War
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Global outrage grows amid Israel's starvation siege of Gaza

The New Arab Staff
22 July, 2025
Palestinians, including children, who are struggling to access food due to Israel's blockade and ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip, wait in line to receive hot meals distributed by the charity organization in Gaza City, Gaza on July 20, 2025.
Gaza War
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Eighteen Palestinians die of hunger in Gaza amid Israeli siege

The New Arab Staff
21 July, 2025
Black smoke billows behind buildings amid ongoing fighting in Khartoum on June 9, 2023.
Sudan civil war
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High risk of famine near Sudan capital: WFP

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 June, 2025
A Sudanese man walks past destroyed military vehicles in front of a hospital in Khartoum
Sudan
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Attack on aid convoy in Sudan's Darfur region kills 5: UN

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 June, 2025
Recurring Floods In South Sudan Displace Refugees And Host Communiti
South Sudan
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Almost 7.7 million in South Sudan face 'crisis' hunger levels

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
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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
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UN races to feed one million Gazans after truce

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
19 January, 2025