Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
united nations world food programmelatest news & developments

Record 45mn need urgent food aid in Southern Africa — UN

Roughly 45-million people in southern Africa are in urgent need of food aid as a result of drought, flooding and economic hardship, the UN said Thursday. “This hunger crisis is…

Hunger, death and safer births in cash-strapped Zimbabwe

Find out how countries around the world are getting mothers to book in for better births starting right here close to home

A man helps a woman through a flooded neighbourhood in the aftermath of Cyclone Kenneth, in Pemba, Mozambique. (Reuters/Mike Hutchings)

Aid agencies rush to bring aid to Mozambique cyclone survivors

Cyclone Kenneth made landfall late Thursday in Cabo Delgado province, packing wind gusts of up to 220 kilometres per hour

Syrians go hungry as conflict soars

The UN has warned it is unable to deliver food to up to a million hungry and desperate Syrians because of spiralling violence and a lack of fuel.

UN to start airlifting food to Somalia

UN to start airlifting food to Somalia

The UN World Food Programme will start airlifting food to Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya — the drought-stricken Horn of Africa region.

Pirates release food aid ship

Somali pirates attacked a Maltese flagged-ship before dawn on Monday with rocket-propelled grenades, but the ship escaped unharmed.

Cultivating young farmers

An initiative in Swaziland is improving food security by teaching children how to sustain crops, writes Mantoe Phakathi.

UN seeks $460m in Ethiopian aid

The United Nations appealed on Monday for -million to feed about 10-million Ethiopians hit by drought and high food prices.

WFP: Attacks threaten Darfur food aid

The UN World Food Programme has threatened to suspend deliveries of food aid to Sudan’s Darfur province after a string of attacks on its convoys.