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WFP had paused distributions in the restive Tigray region in the north after finding evidence of significant supplies on sale in local markets, and immediately launched an investigation. Over 20 million people are in dire need of food…

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan on Friday strongly urged for peace in Sudan and called on both sides in the military power struggle to “implement humanitarian pauses”.This call for peace comes as 331 people have been killed…

ANTAKYA, Turkey: Turkey stepped up work to clear away rubble from collapsed buildings on Monday, as rescue work wound down two weeks after major earthquakes killed more than 46,000 people in southern Turkey and northwest Syria.Turkey's…

The number of people at risk of starvation in the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa has increased to 22 million, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said Friday. Years of insufficient rainfall across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia have caused the…

GENEVA: A group of 80 countries and the WTO leadership may be seeking a ban on all export restrictions for the World Food Programme (WFP) but several of them have never contributed to the scheme to meet humanitarian requirements. While…

David Beasley, Executive Director at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to visit Sri Lanka after accepting the invitation of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe David Beasley, Executive Director at the United Nations World Food…

New Delhi: India wants the World Trade Organization (WTO) to allow exports of foodgrain from public stocks for international food aid and humanitarian purposes, especially on a government-to-government basis, an official said on Monday.…

India is open to supplying food grains to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), but won’t support a binding agreement on it at the next ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) next month,…

DAVOS: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for “maximum” sanctions against Russia during a virtual speech on the first day of the World Economic Forum gathering of corporate executives, government officials and other VIPs in…

The United Nation appealed Friday for access to Ukrainians trapped in war zones, saying those besieged were starving to death. The Rome-based World Food Programme (WFP), which has been operating in Ukraine since the start of the conflict,…