ROME/GAZA ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has begun scaling up its operations in Gaza, as the ceasefire paves the way for humanitarian agencies to reach vulnerable populations that have been cut off from vital aid in the war-torn territory.
JERUSALEM ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Palestine welcomes a US$12 million donation from the Government and people of the Republic of Indonesia to support its humanitarian operations in Gaza.
KYIV ¡ªThe United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a generous contribution of €14.7 million from the European Union to provide people living in frontline areas with food and cash assistance, as well as sustain essential logistics services for humanitarian actors.
YANGON ¨C The Republic of Korea (ROK) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have launched the Responding with Emergency Assistance for Conflict-affected Household (REACH) ¨C a humanitarian initiative delivering emergency aid to conflict-hit families in Myanmar, where hunger is deepening amid ongoing violence, mass displacement, and the devastating March 2025 earthquake.
Port Sudan/Nairobi ¨C?The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) announced today a generous contribution of US$7 million from the Republic of Korea. This vital funding will help to provide critical food and nutrition assistance to vulnerable communities in Sudan, where famine has been confirmed in parts of the country and hundreds of thousands face catastrophic levels of hunger.
DAMASCUS, Syria ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has mounted an emergency response in southern Syria which aims to reach the entire population of As-Sweida and crisis affected families in surrounding areas with food assistance in the coming weeks. The expanded operation builds upon assistance Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been providing across As-Sweida, Dar¡¯a and Rural Damascus, following a recent surge in violence that has displaced thousands and left communities struggling to survive.
FAO, UNICEF, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger and malnutrition
Joint FAO/UNICEF/WHO/Â鶹ÊÓƵ News Release
ROME/GENEVA/NEW YORK ¨C More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according to a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released today. Famine conditions are projected to spread from Gaza Governorate to Deir Al Balah and Khan Younis Governorates in the coming weeks.
Sittwe, Myanmar ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is urgently calling for more humanitarian support in Rakhine State, where a deadly combination of conflict, blockades, and funding cuts is driving a dramatic rise in hunger and malnutrition.
GAZA, Palestine ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) continues to bring convoys of food aid into Gaza virtually every day but dire operating conditions prevent the delivery of life-saving supplies at the scale needed to push back escalating starvation. At the same time, increasing lawlessness inside the territory is hindering supplies from reaching the most vulnerable people.
The population in El Fasher faces starvation and humanitarian needs continue to escalate as access to the besieged city has been cut off despite Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s scale up across Sudan
PORT SUDAN, Sudan ¨C One year since famine was first confirmed in Sudan¡¯s Zamzam camp in North Darfur, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns that the families trapped inside the besieged state capital, El Fasher, face starvation. The city is cut off from humanitarian access leaving the remaining population with little choice but to fend for survival with whatever limited supplies are left.
NEW YORK/ROME ¨C Gaza faces the grave risk of famine as food consumption and nutrition indicators have reached their worst levels since the conflict began, according to data shared in the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Alert.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ welcomes the news that Israel is prepared to implement humanitarian pauses, and that designated humanitarian corridors will be created, to facilitate the safe movement of UN convoys delivering emergency food supplies and other aid to people in Gaza.
JUBA, South Sudan ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) began airdropping emergency food assistance to thousands of families in South Sudan¡¯s Upper Nile State, where surging conflict since March has forced families from their homes and pushed some communities to the brink of famine.
GAZA, Palestine ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) continues to deliver life-saving food assistance inside Gaza despite deteriorating security, limited access, and growing desperation of communities in need of food assistance. A recent Â鶹ÊÓƵ assessment shows nearly one person in three is not eating for days, placing more people at risk of starvation. More than 700,000 people have been forced to relocate since March 18 as an estimated 85 percent of Gaza is now considered an active militarized zone.
NAIROBI, Kenya ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warned that millions of Sudanese refugees who have fled to neighbouring countries risk plunging deeper into hunger and malnutrition as critical funding shortages force drastic cuts to life saving food assistance.
Aden, 22 June 2025 ¨C The food security situation in the Government-controlled areas of southern Yemen is dire, with nearly half of the population acutely food insecure and struggling to find their next meal. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), and UNICEF have warned that the food insecurity crisis is likely to worsen in the months ahead.
Over the last four weeks, Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been able to dispatch just 9,000 metric tons of food aid inside Gaza - a tiny fraction of what a population of 2.1 million hungry people needs.
JUBA, South Sudan ¨C The population in two counties in South Sudan are at risk of famine in the coming months, as conflict in Upper Nile state escalates, destroying homes, disrupting livelihoods, and impeding the delivery of humanitarian aid.
Overnight, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) dispatched 59 trucks carrying life-saving food assistance intended for northern Gaza. The aid convoy, transporting 930 metric tons of wheat flour, was stopped along the way and offloaded by hungry civilians in critical need of food to feed their families. Community responses of relief, gratitude and urgent pleas for more trucks reinforce the desperation of the situation.
GAZA, Palestine - 15 Â鶹ÊÓƵ trucks were looted late last night in Southern Gaza, while en route to Â鶹ÊÓƵ-supported bakeries. These trucks were transporting critical food supplies for hungry populations waiting anxiously for assistance.
GAZA, Palestine ¨C A handful of bakeries in south and central Gaza, supported by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), have resumed bread production after dozens of trucks were finally able to collect cargo from the Kerem Shalom border crossing and deliver it overnight.
ROME/NEW YORK ¨C Populations across the Gaza Strip are at risk of famine as fighting has surged again, border crossings are still closed, and food is dangerously scarce. Hunger and malnutrition have intensified sharply since all aid was blocked from entering on 2 March, reversing the clear humanitarian gains seen during the ceasefire earlier this year.
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).
