World Food Programme (WFP)

People shelter at a monastery in Sittwe town in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on May 12, 2023, ahead of the expected landfall of Cyclone Mocha. Photo: AFP
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13 May 2023
WFP, UN OCHA kick into gear to tackle the humanitarian disaster posed by Cyclone Mocha
Rohingya refugees sell vegetables at a makeshift camp in Kutubpalang, Ukhiya, Cox Bazar district, Bangladesh, 25 August 2022. Photo: EPA
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20 February 2023
Food cuts in Bangladesh will have “devastating...
The UN’s plans to alarmingly cut food aid in camps in Bangladesh shows that the...
Increasingly, it’s women who are harvesting crops as heat waves worsen. Photo: AFP
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08 September 2022
Countries growing 70% of world's food face...
Blistering crop-withering temperatures that also risk the health of agricultural workers...
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04 April 2022
Authorities block UN World Food Programme convoy...
On 3 April a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) convoy carrying basic foodstuffs...
Photo: AFP
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12 January 2022
World Food Programme warns of crisis of food...
Food insecurity in Myanmar has risen sharply since the military coup in February 2021,...
(File) Ppeople taking refuge in a jungle area in Demoso, Kayah state, after they fled from conflict zones where fighting between the Myanmar military and members of the People's Defence Force (PDF) took place as the country remains in turmoil after the February military coup. Photo: AFP
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10 August 2021
WFP struggling to provide assistance in Myanmar
The World Food Program has said it is struggling to provide assistance in Myanmar as 70%...
In this photo taken on May 21, 2021, people wait to receive bags of rice distributed by the World Food Programme (WFP) as part of food aid efforts to support residents living in poor communities on the outskirts of Yangon. Photo: AFP
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29 May 2021
Millions in Myanmar struggle to buy food as coup...
Aye Mar sits with her seven children in their Yangon kitchen and worries whether their...
(FILE) People waiting to receive relief supplies from the World Food Programme (WFP) at the Thet Kal Pyin camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State. Photo: EPA
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23 April 2021
Food aid operation begins to reach two million...
Two million people facing growing food insecurity linked to the ongoing political crisis...
A handout photo made available by the World Food Programme (WFP) shows the Nobel Peace Prize certificate and medal awarded for WFP in 2020, at the WFP headquarters in Rome, Itay, 10 December 2020. Photo: EPA
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12 December 2020
Nobel-winning UN food agency warns of '...
Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in a ceremony held online because of the coronavirus, the...
Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General. Photo: EPA
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10 October 2020
UN Secretary General praises WFP’s winning of...
The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has praised the World Food...
Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Nobel Committee, poses for a photo after she announced the World Food Programme (WFP) as 2020 Nobel Peace Prize laureate in Oslo, Norway, 09 October 2020. Photo: EPA
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10 October 2020
World Food Programme wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the World Food Programme on Friday for feeding...
Photo: Chit Min Tun/Mizzima
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23 July 2020
Distribution of 165 tons of food supplies donated...
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has started distribution of 165 tons of...
Staff members handle boxes containing COVID-19 test kits at the Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar, 10 May 2020. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
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12 May 2020
COVID-19 emergency air-bridge from Kuala Lumpur...
Humanitarian agencies of the United Nations and their partners have launched an emergency...

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