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Apr
25
2024
By GABRIELLE TÉTRAULT-FARBER
Gaza could surpass famine thresholds in six weeks, WFP official says

Gaza could surpass famine thresholds in six weeks, WFP official says

WORLD
THE Gaza Strip could surpass famine thresholds of food insecurity, malnutrition and mortality in six weeks, an official from the World Food Programme said on Wednesday. "We are getting closer by the day to a famine situation," said Gian Caro Cirri, Geneva director of the World Food Programme (WFP). "There is reasonable evidence that all three famine thresholds -- food insecurity, malnutrition and mortality -- will be passed in the next six weeks." A U.N.-backed report published in March said that famine was imminent and likely to occur by May in northern Gaza and could spread across the enclave by July. On…
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Nov
17
2023
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
UN warns that food aid running out for Sudanese refugees in Chad

UN warns that food aid running out for Sudanese refugees in Chad

NEWS
FOOD aid for more than half a million refugees who have fled from Sudan to Chad will run out next month without extra funding, a World Food Programme official said. "By December, there will be no assistance," Pierre Honnorat, Chad's country director for the U.N. agency, told Reuters. "We are calling for urgent, urgent funding now." More than 540,000 refugees have crossed from Sudan into Chad since war erupted seven months ago between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to the International Organization for Migration. Many have fled from West Darfur, where ethnically driven violence…
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Jul
04
2023
By LUCY GITHUGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY
Twins on a mission to save the world

Twins on a mission to save the world

ENVIRONMENT
STELLA and Winnie Mutai were virtually inseparable after being born a mere five minutes apart and that is how it stayed, all the way until university. Then came their first big shock. "Being twins goes beyond being born together and at the same time. It is a purposeful thing that can only be witnessed rather than explained," said Stella Mutai, who is today a specialist at the World Food Programme. Born and raised in Nakuru, they attended all the same schools. But then came university. For the first time, the future for the twins began to diverge, when they chose…
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May
12
2023
By ADAM MAKARY and DINA SAKR
In Khartoum, civilians face desperate struggle to survive

In Khartoum, civilians face desperate struggle to survive

NEWS
SINCE fighting broke out in Sudan on April 15, Khartoum resident Omar says he and his father have not left their home and believe they are the only civilians left in the neighbourhood. They have limited themselves to one meal a day, hoping their dwindling food supplies will last a month longer. "After that, we don't know what we'll do except survive off water and dates," he said by phone from Sudan's embattled capital. While others have fled, they have stayed in Khartoum, in an area near the airport where there's been intense fighting because they did not want to abandon…
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May
10
2023
By MAHAMAT RAMADANE, JOE BAVIER and EMMA FARGE
Sudan deepens crisis in Africa as UN sees 5 million more needing aid

Sudan deepens crisis in Africa as UN sees 5 million more needing aid

NEWS
WHEN a power struggle between Sudan's rival military leaders shattered a tenuous peace in her village in Sudan's western region of Darfur, Halime Yacoub Issac's first instinct was to take her five children and run. But four days after seeking refuge in neighbouring Chad - a country with its own dire humanitarian crisis - she had yet to receive any assistance and was just hoping they wouldn't starve. "We're entirely dependent on food Chadian families give us," Issac told Reuters, sitting in a rare patch of shade near the border village of Goungour with other newly arrived women and children,…
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Feb
28
2023
By The African Mirror
U.N. humanitarian flights suspended in Congo’s North-Kivu and Ituri provinces, WFP says

U.N. humanitarian flights suspended in Congo’s North-Kivu and Ituri provinces, WFP says

NEWS
THE United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) suspended flights in Congo's North Kivu and Ituri provinces following an attack on one of the service's helicopters last Friday, the World Food Programme (WFP), said. Flights between the provincial capital Goma and the eastern cities of Beni and Bunia have been suspended until further notice, Claude Kalinga, a WFP spokesperson in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), told Reuters. "On Friday, February 24, a helicopter operated by UNHAS came under heavy fire about ten minutes outside of Goma as it returned from Walikale to Goma," the WFP said in a statement. The…
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Feb
19
2023
By CLODAGH KILCOYNE and ALI KUCUKGOCMEN
Earthquake death toll passes 46,000; desperation for signs of life

Earthquake death toll passes 46,000; desperation for signs of life

WORLD
MORE than 46,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria and the toll is expected to soar, with some 345,000 apartments in Turkey now known to have been destroyed, and many still missing. As Turkey attempts to manage its worst modern disaster, concerns were growing over the victims of the tragedy in Syria, with the World Food Programme (WFP) pressuring authorities in the northwest to stop blocking access to the area as it seeks to help hundreds of thousands of people ravaged by earthquakes. Twelve days after the quake hit, workers from Kyrgyzstan tried to…
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Apr
15
2022
By The African Mirror
Ukraine war increases U.N. food agency’s costs in hunger-hit West Africa

Ukraine war increases U.N. food agency’s costs in hunger-hit West Africa

NEWS
OPERATIONAL costs of the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) will increase by $136 million in West Africa this year because of the global rise in food and fuel prices driven by the war in Ukraine, the agency said. The additional costs will hamper attempts to relieve a spiralling food crisis in the region fuelled by conflict, drought, pandemic-linked border closures and the impact of Ukraine's crisis on food prices and availability. The WFP was already struggling to expand its response to an "unprecedented food and nutrition crisis" in West Africa, and was forced to cut rations in seven countries…
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Mar
31
2022
By The African Mirror
Madagascans stave off encroaching dunes with plants

Madagascans stave off encroaching dunes with plants

ENVIRONMENT
CHRISTOPHE VAN DER PERRE and ALKIS KONSTANTIDINIS FIELDS, homes, wells and tombs were gradually being buried under shifting sand dunes on this windswept stretch of Madagascar's southern coastline until the local community fought back, armed only with plants and elbow grease. After years of painstaking planting by hundreds of local volunteers, 36 hectares of dunes have been stabilised by long lines of plants that trap moisture in the ground and stop the relentless wind from blowing the sand further inland. The World Food Programme (WFP), a United Nations agency, provided most of the plants as part of a project to…
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May
01
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Famine looms in southern Madagascar’

‘Famine looms in southern Madagascar’

NEWS
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY FAMINE threatens southern Madagascar after drought and sandstorms ruined harvests, reducing people to eating locusts and leaves, the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. The lives of children are in danger, especially those under five years old whose malnutrition rates have reached "alarming levels", Amer Daoudi, senior director of global WFP operations, said by videolink from Madagascar's capital Antananarivo. At least 1.35 million people are in need of food assistance in the region, but the WFP is only reaching 750,000 with "half-rations" due to financial constraints, he said. "Famine looms in southern Madagascar as communities…
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