KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo ¨C As Ebola spreads to an eighth province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), affected families face growing difficulty accessing food while following treatment and isolation guidance. In a response already challenged by conflict, hunger and access constraints, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is delivering food assistance, building Ebola Treatment Centres and providing the logistics, telecommunications and air services that enable health partners to reach affected communities.
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.
JUBA, South Sudan ¨C More than 650,000 refugees and asylum seekers in South Sudan risk losing further access to lifesaving food, nutrition and other assistance due to critical funding shortfalls, leaving families who fled war and hunger with nowhere else to turn, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today.
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.
At the International Social and Behavioral Change Communications Summit, Â鶹ÊÓƵ highlights innovative approaches empowering people to make healthier food choices.
Panama City/Bangkok - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) showcased how integrating social and behavior change approaches across its programs is critical to improving diets and ending hunger at the International Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit, held this week.
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 ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes the announcement of an USD 800 million direct contribution to Â鶹ÊÓƵ by the U.S. State Department. This critical funding will support Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s life-saving food and nutrition operations to reach more than 38 million of the most vulnerable across at least 37 countries.
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.
This is a summary of what was said by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Assistant Executive Director, Matthew Hollingworth, to whom quoted text may be attributed?¨C?at a press briefing in Geneva today.
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
NEW YORK ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today released its next-generation platform, HungerMap Live, a powerful digital monitoring and intelligence capability that integrates a wide range of food security data and analysis with predictive modelling to help fight hunger in more than 50 countries.
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.
This is a transcript of what was said by Corinne Fleischer, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Director of Supply Chain (speaking from Rome via Zoom) ¨C to whom quoted text may be attributed ¨C at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
The briefing highlighted the severe impact that conflict in the Middle East is having on Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Supply Chain operations as food deliveries to life saving operations around the world face long delays and increased costs. In the most significant disruption to humanitarian supply chains since Covid or the start of the war in Ukraine, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is warning that today¡¯s supply chain challenges are tomorrow¡¯s hunger crisis.
Nearly 6.5 million Somalis face high levels of hunger, and more than 1.8 million children face acute malnutrition due to worsening drought, the Somali government and UN agencies have warned in a new report.
MOGADISHU, Somalia ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is sounding the alarm that its life?saving emergency food and nutrition assistance in Somalia is at imminent risk of grinding to a halt without new immediate funding commitments. The organization¡¯s resources are expected to be depleted within weeks without urgent replenishment.
This is a summary of what was said by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Director of Emergency Preparedness and Response, Ross Smith, to whom quoted text may be attributed?¨C?at a press briefing in Geneva today.
ROME/GENEVA - I would like to share the latest updates from Â鶹ÊÓƵ about the extremely worrying humanitarian situation in Somalia.
MOGADISHU ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a contribution of EUR 6.5 million (USD 7.5 million) from the European Union (EU) to provide lifesaving assistance for crisis-affected people in Somalia. This funding will also support the operations of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ-managed United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) across the country.
Cindy McCain lays out Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s strategic priorities for 2026 in the fight against hunger
ROME ¨C United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director, Cindy McCain, this week kicks off the agency¡¯s 2026 efforts to push back on rising levels of extreme hunger at a time when humanitarians confront escalating risks and severe resource constraints.
KABUL, Afghanistan ¨C Over 17 million Afghans are facing acute food insecurity this winter, as the scale and severity of hunger and malnutrition deepens, warns the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ). New food security figures from the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report for Afghanistan indicate that three million more women, men, and children face acute hunger or worse (IPC3+) compared to the 14.8 million last year.
YANGON, Myanmar ¨C More than 12 million people in Myanmar will face acute hunger in 2026, with a projected one million people hitting emergency levels that will require lifesaving assistance, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today. Intensifying conflict and a sharp jump in displacement now risks pushing an underfunded hunger crisis to breaking point.
DAKAR, Senegal ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today launched a regional innovation hub in Dakar to accelerate the development of sustainable, locally-led solutions in addressing hunger and malnutrition in West and Central Africa.
BANGKOK, Thailand - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and Siam Piwat, a leading retail and property development company today opened the ¡°Steps for Tomorrow ¨C A Journey Towards Zero Hunger¡± exhibition at the Siam Paragon mall, in Bangkok, to raise awareness about Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s work to tackle hunger across the Asia-Pacific region.
ABUJA, Nigeria ¨C Growing instability across northern Nigeria, including a surge in attacks, is driving hunger to levels never seen before, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today. The warning follows the release of the latest Cadre Harmonis¨¦, a regional food security analysis that classifies the severity of hunger, which found that nearly 35 million people are projected to face severe food insecurity during the 2026 lean season, the highest number recorded in Nigeria.
