World Food Programme

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 Lebanese Ministry of Economy and Trade said in a statement that Lebanon's food stocks on a national level are sufficient for three to four months

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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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
Gaza War
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WFP pauses staff movement in Gaza after Israel strikes vehicle

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

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

The New Arab Staff
03 December, 2023
United Nations
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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
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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
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Sudan: UN condemns killing of 3 World Food Programme staff

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 April, 2023
Syria
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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
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US buys Ukrainian grain to support humanitarian aid: WFP

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
20 August, 2022
Horn of Africa
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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