WFP spokesperson Clair Nevill said the worst effects could be averted if action is taken quickly, but that doesn’t look likely. “In the 2016 to 2017 drought, this catastrophe was avoided ...

GENEVA, 22nd April, 2025 (WAM) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) today warned of worsening hunger and malnutrition in Ethiopia, as growing humanitarian needs strain resources and over 10 million ...

And if WFP Ethiopia was no longer able to provide anticipatory support, which would lead to more families losing their livelihoods and being forced to migrate, then the country’s emergency ...

In a written response Monday evening to questions, the WFP told The Associated Press that the agency has started distributing wheat to around 100,000 people in four districts of Ethiopia’s ...

The World Food Programme (WFP) has called for urgent and collective global action to end hunger, as acute food insecurity continues to rise sharply in crisis-affected regions across the world.

Health facilities juggling rising cases of infant hunger, malaria, in an area that also shelters thousands of refugees.

The World Food Programme said yesterday that it was suspending aid for 650,000 malnourished women and children in Ethiopia because of a lack of funding. The UN agency warned they were among 3.6 ...

World Food Programme (WFP) workers screen for malnutrition and distribute food to communities in the Adi Daero district of the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021.

"WFP in Ethiopia and elsewhere in the world strictly adheres to the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and operational independence," WFP said. For more reporting from ...

The U.S., the largest humanitarian donor to both Ethiopia and WFP, also paused food aid. U.S. officials have said they believe the theft could be the largest-ever diversion of donated food.

The United Nations World Food Program is slowly resuming food aid to Ethiopia, the agency said Monday, Aug. 7, 2023 nearly five months after taking the extraordinary measure of suspending aid to ...