N¡¯DJAMENA, Chad ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of Japan today signed an agreement for a JPY 200 million contribution, equivalent to USD 1.3 million or XAF 706,000,000 to provide school meals and malnutrition prevention services to communities in food-insecure and crisis-affected areas of Chad.
DAKAR, Senegal ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomed the recognition of the Sahel Integrated Resilience Initiative as a United Nations World Restoration Flagship, recognizing the large-scale efforts to restore degraded land and strengthen food security across Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
N¡¯DJAMENA, Chad ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has announced 28-year-old Chadian taekwondo star Casimir Betel as a High-Level Supporter for its work in Chad. Betel will use his platform and reach among young athletes, sports enthusiasts and local community members in Chad and across Africa to raise awareness of the impacts of acute hunger and Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s work.
N¡¯Djamena ¨C?More than a million Sudanese refugees?in Chad?face immediate and life-threatening cuts to food, water, shelter, protection and health care,?two leading UN humanitarian agencies warned today as the conflict in neighbouring Sudan approaches the three year mark.
DAKAR, Senegal ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns that without urgent resources and action, the most vulnerable people in West and Central Africa are headed for yet another dire year. A staggering 55 million people in the region are expected to endure crisis levels of hunger, or worse, during the June¨CAugust 2026 lean season. Over 13 million children are also expected to suffer from malnutrition in 2026.
DAKAR, Senegal ¨C Amid a deepening hunger crisis across West and Central Africa, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has reached over 3.3 million of the most vulnerable people in West and Central Africa with emergency food and nutrition assistance between June and September 2025, thanks to critical funding from the European Union¡¯s (EU) Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations.
N¡¯DJAMENA, Chad ¨C The Government of Japan has contributed JPY 200 million (US$1.3 million) to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to support emergency school meals in Chad. This contribution will allow Â鶹ÊÓƵ to assist 44,000 schoolchildren over a 24-month period, ensuring continuity of the school feeding programme in crisis-affected areas and helping protect children¡¯s education and well-being.
Conflict and violence are driving extreme hunger in six major crises
ROME ¨C A new joint report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns that acute food insecurity is deepening in 16 hunger hotspots, which threatens to drive millions more into famine or risk of famine.
DAKAR, Senegal ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) sounded the alarm today as persistent conflict, displacement, economic deterioration, and recurrent extreme weather in West and Central Africa are driving millions of people towards emergency levels of hunger (IPC4).
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today that 58 million people risk losing life-saving assistance in the agency¡¯s 28 most critical crisis response operations unless new funding is received urgently.
N¡¯DJAMENA ¨CThe World Meteorological Organization's Systemic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have launched a five-year project aiming to modernise Chad's meteorological network, improve weather forecasts, and anticipate the consequences of climate events in Chad.
DAKAR ¨C Over 40 million* people across West and Central Africa are struggling to feed themselves during the 2024 post-harvest season. This number is set to rise to 52.7 million by mid-2025, including 3.4 million people facing emergency levels of hunger (IPC/CH Phase 4) according to a new Cadre Harmonis¨¦ food security analysis released this month.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ trucks arrive in famine-hit Zamzam camp in North Darfur; Over 700 trucks on the road to locations across Sudan
PORT SUDAN ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today announced a surge in its operations across Sudan, part of a scale-up effort to reach millions of people in the country¡¯s most needy and isolated conflict areas.
ROME ¨C As the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) responds to flood emergencies across the globe, the agency is calling for investment and concerted action to prepare vulnerable communities for more frequent extreme climate events that threaten to damage crops, displace communities and disrupt food systems.
DAKAR ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is ramping up its lifesaving food and nutrition assistance programme in West and Central Africa, targeting 7.3 million people during the ongoing June-August lean season ¨C when food stocks run out and hunger peaks. The programme ¨C which kicks off in June ¨C supports national governments¡¯ lean season response plans in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Nigeria.
N¡¯DJAMENA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of approximately US$ 7.6 million (JPY 1.1billion) from the Government of Japan to support the Chadian Government emergency response to crisis-affected communities in Chad.
PORT SUDAN ¨C Sudan¡¯s war has claimed thousands of lives, forced millions from their homes, and sparked economic turmoil across the region that is deepening the hunger crisis, warns the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) as the conflict approaches its one-year mark.
YOKOHAMA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a grant of JPY 5 billion (about US$34 million) from the Government of Japan to support Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s emergency assistance to improve food security in 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Thank you, Mr. President, thank you for this opportunity to brief the Council on the rapidly worsening food security situation in Sudan and the profound regional implications of this crisis.
N¡¯DJAMENA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is today warning that life-saving programmes in Chad will grind to a halt in a matter of weeks without urgent funding. The stark warning comes as thousands of Sudanese refugees continue to stream across the border from Darfur, and as the rainy season looms, threatening to cut off road access for humanitarian deliveries to the camps in the east of the country ¨C where around a million Sudanese refugees have sought shelter.
JUBA ¨C Sudan¡¯s war has shattered millions of lives and created the world¡¯s largest displacement crisis. Now this catastrophe also risks becoming the world¡¯s largest hunger crisis, unless fighting stops, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director Cindy McCain warns today as she concludes a visit to South Sudan, where she met families fleeing violence and an escalating hunger emergency in Sudan.
DAKAR ¨C With a Euro 48.5 million contribution from the European Union (EU) received through its Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO), Â鶹ÊÓƵ was able to respond to the severe food crisis in eight countries of West and Central Africa during the 2023 hunger gap and beyond.
N¡¯DJAMENA ¨C The United Nations World Food programme (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is today warning of a looming halt to its food and nutrition assistance to 1.4 million crisis-affected populations in Chad ¨C including newly arrived Sudanese refugees - due to funding constraints.
ROME/COTONOU, BENIN ¨C The ripple effects of Sudan¡¯s war are impacting hunger and migration across West and Central Africa, rapidly depleting scarce resources, further stressing the already underfunded humanitarian response, and exacerbating inter-communal tensions. The spillover will be devastating for peace and stability in a region already facing climate extremes, insecurity, and economic decline, warned the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director Cindy McCain as she concludes a visit to Chad, Togo, and Benin.
