In 1961 the Eisenhower administration played a key role in the establishment of the World Food Programme (WFP) - an experimental effort to provide food through the United Nations to people around the ...

Japan and World Food Programme (WFP) provide life-saving food assistance for refugees and returnees in Burundi ...

The following is a transcript of an interview with Cindy McCain, World Food Programme executive director, on "Face the Nation" that aired on June 9, 2024. MARGARET BRENNAN: We're joined now by the ...

Those are the words of World Food Program USA’S Barron Segar, when asked about the state of world hunger. “There’s a sense of urgency and a sense of acting now or we’re going to see the world slip ...

The World Food Programme is freezing employee movement in Gaza after one of its vehicles was targeted with repeated gunfire just meters from an Israeli checkpoint, according to a statement by the ...

The mission of the U.N. World Food Programme is simple: make the world more stable and more peaceful by feeding the hungry. In recent months, though, it has had to choose between the hungry ... and ...

Governments across the world are pulling back on its humanitarian funding, forcing the World Food Program to cut food rations to the world’s hungriest people. The U.N. agency warned that the shortfall ...

The causes of global hunger are many and well-known: conflict, climate and in too many cases, cruelty. But it is the job of the United Nations World Food Programme to push through those barriers to ...

The following is a transcript of an interview with Cindy McCain, U.N. World Food Programme executive director, on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that aired on Dec. 15, 2024. MARGARET BRENNAN: ...

The United Nations has recommitted to offering food assistance to North Korea through December 2024. The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) noted its continued support in an undated document posted to ...