KHARTOUM, Sudan ¨C Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director Luke J. Lindberg called for an urgent end to the protracted fighting in Sudan after meeting families forced to flee their homes and struggling to feed their children amid the world¡¯s largest humanitarian crisis.
Concluding his first field mission as Â鶹ÊÓƵ Executive Director, Lindberg met Â鶹ÊÓƵ teams on the ground and displaced families escaping the intensifying conflict.
GAZA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today announced that funding shortages have forced it to reduce food assistance in Gaza by around one-third: half a million people will lose access to critical assistance. The cuts come as winter approaches and recent modest improvements in food security remain fragile.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes the recent release of one of its staff members who had been arbitrarily detained in Yemen and is relieved that he has been reunited with his family.
KHARTOUM, Sudan ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) strongly condemns an aerial attack that hit two contracted trucks carrying Â鶹ÊÓƵ food commodities in South Kordofan in the early hours of Saturday, 3 October 2026.
ADEN/ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today that food insecurity is steeply increasing in Government of Yemen areas, as escalating conflict forces families from their homes, disrupts markets and restricts humanitarian access. Here are the latest updates on food security and Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s response to the escalation.
KHARTOUM, Sudan - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a USD 5 million contribution from the Republic of Korea to provide emergency food assistance to 365,000 people and nutritious school meals to 23,000 children as Sudan faces one of the world¡¯s largest hunger crises.
KHARTOUM, Sudan ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) strongly condemns the aerial attack that hit two trucks carrying Â鶹ÊÓƵ food assistance outside of Dilling, South Kordofan, on 30 August 2026. The trucks were destined for Kadugli, South Kordofan, and were clearly marked with Â鶹ÊÓƵ banners and flags.
KABUL, Afghanistan ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is sounding the alarm over a deepening child malnutrition crisis in Afghanistan, warning that funding shortfalls are forcing life-saving food and nutrition programmes to be scaled back at the very moment they are needed most. Without urgent support, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and its partners will be unable to prevent more children from becoming dangerously malnourished, putting lives at risk in the coming months.
BEIRUT, Lebanon ¨C The Government of Lebanon and the UN, with generous funding from the European Union, launched today an intervention to assist conflict-affected farming households and protect agricultural livelihoods across the country. This support is part of a larger multi-year programme funded by the European Union and jointly implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
PORT SUDAN, Sudan ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warned that the humanitarian situation in El Obeid ¨C the capital of Sudan¡¯s North Kordofan state - is rapidly deteriorating as displacement towards the city grows, driving up humanitarian food needs. This risks reversing some of the fragile gains achieved over the last several months when Â鶹ÊÓƵ scaled up its food assistance efforts in Sudan to support communities at-risk of famine.
Here are the latest updates on food security and Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s operations in the area and across the country.
This is a summary of what was said by Abdallah Aldawart, Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Country Director for Sudan (speaking from Kosti, Sudan, via Zoom) ¨C to whom quoted text may be attributed ¨C at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
ABUJA, Nigeria ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ warned today that Nigeria¡¯s food security crisis is worsening faster than previously anticipated. Conflict is driving hunger in some northern states, particularly the northeast, to levels not seen in almost a decade.
ROME/PORT SUDAN ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warned that the rapidly deteriorating situation in and around El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan in Sudan, risks unleashing a new wave of violence and mass displacement. This threatens to deepen the country¡¯s already catastrophic hunger crisis.
ROME/PORT SUDAN ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warned that the rapidly deteriorating situation in and around El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan in Sudan, risks unleashing a new wave of violence and mass displacement. This threatens to deepen the country¡¯s already catastrophic hunger crisis.
BEIRUT, Lebanon ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is warning that nearly three months into the conflict, Lebanon faces a deepening humanitarian emergency with a critical combination of displacement and increased food insecurity. More than one million people remain displaced, while soaring prices, lost incomes and strained markets are pushing food further out of reach for vulnerable families.
Food insecurity and malnutrition worsen across Somalia as the first famine risk since the 2022 crisis is confirmed amid the compounding effects of multiple shocks.
MOGADISHU, Somalia ¨C The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the UN Children¡¯s Fund (UNICEF), and the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today of a rapidly intensifying hunger emergency in Somalia that is pushing 6 million people ¨C 31 percent of the population ¨C into critical levels of food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) between April and June 2026. This now includes one of the worst malnutrition crises in the world impacting approximately 1.9 million children, of whom 493,000 face severe acute malnutrition, who are 12 times at higher risk of death compared to well-nourished children.
Conflict, displacement and restricted humanitarian access leave more than 825,000 children at risk of death from severe malnutrition in 2026
ROME/NEW YORK/PORT SUDAN, 15 May 2026 ¨C The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and UNICEF warned today that nearly 19.5 million people ¨C two out of every five people in Sudan - are currently facing crisis levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) across Sudan, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis.
This is a summary of what was said by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Director of Emergencies and Response, Ross Smith, to whom quoted text may be attributed?¨C?at a press briefing in Geneva today.
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo ¨C The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warn that the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to face one of the world¡¯s largest and most severe hunger crises.
ROME, Italy ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of EUR 10 million from the Government of Spain to help meet urgent needs amid worsening food insecurity driven by conflict and the ripple effect of the escalation in the Middle East.
Conflict and displacement drive worsening crisis, with risk of famine in hardest-hit areas; nearly 700,000 children in danger of severe and deadly malnutrition
NORTH DARFUR, Sudan ¡ª On the eve of three years of devastating war, the Sudanese people are still being left to cope with intense fighting and widespread suffering. Conflict is killing and injuring countless civilians, and leaving millions without access to food, shelter or sanitation, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today.
