Tag: World Food Programme

Morocco re-elected to World Food Programme’s executive board

December 7, 2024

Morocco was re-elected on Friday as a member of the Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP) for another one-year mandate. The election took ... Read More

UN raises $630mil, short of target $1bn, to tackle Ethiopia’s dire humanitarian crisis

April 17, 2024

A United Nations-led donor event held in its headquarters in Geneva on Tuesday (16 April) managed to secure financial pledges only for about two-thirds of ... Read More

Sudan’s despair: no sign of truce, famine looms as war nears one-year anniversary

April 9, 2024

With Sudan’s war about to enter its second year next week, the country has been embroiled in a fierce conflict with two rival military factions ... Read More

Kenyan agriculture ministry accused of supplying fake fertilizers to farmers

April 3, 2024

The Kenyan agriculture ministry has been accused of supplying fake fertilizers to farmers, the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) said. Africa Uncensored was the first ... Read More

Torrential floods deepen food crisis in West, Central Africa amid climate emergency

November 9, 2022

An estimated 4 million people, many of them small subsistence farmers, in over a dozen countries in West and Central Africa that have seen their ... Read More

UN “deeply concerned” Russia’s pullout of grain deal will escalate world food crisis

October 31, 2022

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed deep concern at Russia’s decision to suspend its involvement in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a deal set up ... Read More