WFP’s e-voucher programme gives displaced families in Nigeria’s Borno State the freedom to choose nutritious food while strengthening local markets and livelihoods.

In Uganda’s Karamoja region, failed rains have devastated crops and left more than 600,000 people facing hunger. For Paulina Awii, the drought meant watching her sorghum wither and struggling to feed her five children, including 16-month-old Margaret, who developed acute malnutrition. Food assistance and monthly cash support are now helping the family buy nutritious food, while Margaret has gained weight. Across Karamoja, the World Food Programme and the Government are providing food, school meals and nutrition support, while helping communities grow drought-tolerant crops and prepare for future weather extremes.

After devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, WFP staff are supporting affected communities with food and solidarity, even as they cope with profound personal losses themselves.

Funding cuts and worsening humanitarian conditions are leaving millions of Afghan children and mothers without the nutrition and healthcare they urgently need.

Despite modest improvements, most people in Gaza still face severe hunger, with limited aid, funding shortages, and restricted access threatening recovery and food security.

A child wades through water  in Uvira, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, after El Niño-induced torrential rains caused Lake Tanganyika to overflow in 2024. El Niño is one of the world's strongest climate patterns, bringing droughts, floods and extreme weather that damage crops, disrupt markets and drive hunger in vulnerable communities. Because its impacts can be forecast months in advance, governments and humanitarian agencies have a critical window to act before food crises escalate. Through anticipatory action—such as cash assistance, food support, early-warning systems and climate monitoring—the World Food Programme helps families protect their livelihoods and reduce future losses. 

WFP has been providing food and other humanitarian assistance to Ebola-affected areas: hot meals to patients, family members and health workers; along with take-home food rations and nutrition support to other vulnerable people that together reach more than 1.2 million Congolese. Why? Because Food assistance helps patients and family members remain under observation, reduces the need for people to travel in search of food, and supports wider efforts to contain the spread of Ebola. In addition, WFP is providing logistics, telecommunications and air transport to move humanitarian workers and essential cargo to the frontlines of the Ebola crisis in eastern DRC.  WFP warns that conflict, displacement and rising food prices are worsening the crisis and is seeking US$72 million to sustain the Ebola response.

Can art change the way we see a humanitarian crisis? A powerful traveling exhibition is bringing deeply personal stories from Gaza to audiences across Europe through paintings created amid conflict, loss, and uncertainty. Tens of thousands have flocked to see Ahmed Muhanna's paintings of food insecurity and survival in Gaza. With his painting supplies running out during Gaza's war, Muhanna swapped acrylics for charcoal and coffee, and canvas for WFP food boxes. The exhibition invites visitors to look beyond headlines and statistics to the human experiences behind them. 

From Indonesia to Afghanistan, fortified biscuits travel 15,000 km across closed borders and conflict zones to reach Afghan schoolchildren who rely on WFP meals.

WFP warns Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is spreading rapidly, worsening hunger, displacement, and overwhelming fragile humanitarian response systems.

WFP-backed Nashonuma programme reduces child stunting in Pakistan through nutrition support, counselling, and maternal health services.

Afghan mother Raqiba Ahmadi struggles daily to feed six children as worsening hunger and funding cuts threaten vital nutrition assistance.

UN agencies warn that 2.2 million young children are suffering from acute malnutrition, and 7.8 million people are at risk of hunger.

A prolonged Middle East crisis is driving up fuel and food costs worldwide, pushing millions closer to hunger as disrupted supply chains hit the most vulnerable communities hardest.

War, hunger, and displacement continue devastating millions in Sudan, as aid struggles to keep pace with worsening humanitarian needs and funding gaps.