The United Nations' World Food Programme is closing its southern Africa office due to funding cuts from the Trump administration. To optimize operations, it will consolidate the offices into a regional hub in Nairobi.

The World Food Programme (WFP) works closely with UNHCR during emergencies and longer-term crises to provide food to uprooted people around the world, especially vulnerable groups such as women and children. It supports food-related activities aimed at ...

The United Nations World Food Programme has temporarily stopped distributing food aid in a famine-struck camp for displaced people in Sudan's North Darfur amid escalating violence, warning that thousands of families could starve in the coming weeks.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday that hunger in Sudan's Zamzam refugee camp could worsen after the agency temporarily paused food assistance to the camp, citing intense fighting

The U.N. human rights chief warned of the risk of a further escalation of the war in Sudan on Thursday and said that there was a growing risk of deaths from starvation on a wide scale.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Monday that it was closing its Southern Africa bureau due to funding constraints after United States (US) President Donald Trump’s administration announced last week that it was terminating 90 per cent of USAID’s foreign aid contracts.