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APRIL 3, 2020

Photo: WFP/Simon Pierre Diouf By George Fominyen As the world seeks to halt the spread of COVID-19, West Africa is still grappling with another contagion?—?conflict. The region is a tinderbox for coronavirus, with hundreds of thousands being forced to flee their homes in West Africa’s portion of the Sahel?

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

WFP/Bertrand Mounsamboté ‘Gari’ originates from West Africa. WFP/Brunelle Seholo The gari in Bouansa is marketed as ‘new gari’ because it’s of finer texture, tastier and and crunchier than the traditional product. Packaged in bags of about 1 kg, gari?—?a a toasted cassava flour?—?is is being sold to passers-by.

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JULY 2, 2020

Latin America at centre of concerns as invisible enemy hits countries beset by climate change and conflict Colombia: WFP and World Vision provide 5,000 food baskets to Colombians and migrants in Soacha, near Bogotá. WFP is issuing an urgent call for US$4.9 Photo: WFP/Khudr Alissa “What is frightening is that the peak is yet to come.

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MARCH 31, 2020

Two veterans of the 2014–2016 outbreak in West Africa recall how agency stepped up to support medical response An Ebola treatment centre in Beni in North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where WFP provides specialized nutritious food. The role WFP played was critical.” This is where WFP has a comparative advantage.

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APRIL 16, 2020

COVID-19 will almost double acute hunger by end of 2020 New WFP figures indicate additional 130 million lives and livelihoods will be at risk A woman collects food in Deir Hafer, 60 km from Aleppo in Syria. These new projections show the scale of the catastrophe we are facing,” warned WFP chief economist Arif Husain. “We

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MARCH 19, 2020

South Sudan is among East African countries experiencing invasions on a scale not seen since 2003–2005 in West Africa A handful of locusts in county Magwi, South Sudan. link]  —  @WFP “What we see today is 55 percent of the population in crisis food-security levels or worse,” says Hollingsworth. And what happens?

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APRIL 20, 2020

UN bodies and humanitarian organizations warn donors that failing to invest $2bn could have devastating consequences Somalia: A WFP distribution point in Kaya, Sanmatenga province. World leaders call on WFP to lead COVID-19 fight in Africa “Humanity collectively faces its most daunting challenge since the Second World War,” the letter said.

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APRIL 22, 2020

and urgent funding A WFP-backed nutrition clinic in Kaya, Burkina Faso?—?with Photo: WFP/Marwa Awad World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley has warned that in addition to the threat posed by COVID-19, the world faces “multiple famines of biblical proportions” that could result in 300,000 deaths per day?

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MARCH 30, 2020

Photo: WFP/Saikat Mojumder Story by Chase Sova, acting Head of Public Policy for WFP-USA. While the coronavirus has been slow to reach sub-Saharan Africa, most experts agree that its impact there is imminent (and may already be understated given the lack of testing capability). Photo: WFP/Alan Ali 2. Africa’s 1.2

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

severely food-insecure, WFP is calling for urgent investment to double the number of people it assists Smallholder farmer Elias Shamba?—?in Photo: WFP/Matteo Cosorich Driving through rural Zimbabwe in December , the country does not look quite as it should around this time of the year. —?half the country’s population?—?severely

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JUNE 30, 2020

WFP is providing cash in Uganda’s capital Kampala to 80,000 refugees living in informal settlements who have been hard hit by the consequences of COVID-19. Photo: WFP/Hugh Rutherford Not far from one of the most affluent neighbourhoods in Uganda’s capital, Adela Dagadi struggles to raise ten children in what her sons call “a ghetto.”

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OCTOBER 24, 2020

World Food Programme Cash transfers helping refugees impacted by coronavirus in Cameroon WFP cash transfers are a lifeline for 40,000 people affected by the socio-economic impact of the coronavirus. Photo: WFP Story by Marriane Enow Tabi and Saidou Abdoul Aziz The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted lives in the most unforeseen ways.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

the first UNICEF-WFP Innovation Project?—?is is set for field-testing in the Middle East and North Africa region Palestine is one of the countries where the nutrition-bowl design WFP and Unicef have developed will be tested. Complementary Feeding Bowl design?—?the For Alimatou, its mainly rice, water and sugar.

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MARCH 1, 2019

Eat, grow, study: School feeding in Africa Political will and commitment to school feeding in Africa is on the rise, with more governments supporting policy, legislation and financing School feeding is changing lives in Africa. President Patrice Talon of Benin (left) has made school feeding a national priority with WFP support.

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JULY 17, 2020

Photo: WFP/Francisco Garrido By Peyvand Khorsandi “Let’s say a country uses the free World Health Organization platform to buy a million dollars’ worth of high-quality PPE at a discounted rate? What are the WFP Common Services? The first batch of WFP supplies, including 50 sets of non-invasive ventilators, reach Wuhan on 13 March.

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MARCH 27, 2020

Photo: WFP/Reem Nada Nitesh Patel is worried, about Yemen and Sudan in particular. based at the World Food Programme (WFP) Cairo Regional Bureau?—?says In February, WFP delivered 14,000 metric tons of food to 2.2 Photo: WFP/Muhammad Salah The incidence of diarrhoea and acute respiratory infections?—?with

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JUNE 23, 2020

WFP’s hydroponics project grows during Kenya’s coronavirus lockdown H2Grow is flourishing more than ever in arid Turkana County WFP’s H2Grow project is helping families in Turkana County grow their own fresh produce during Kenya’s lockdown. In Turkana County in northwestern Kenya, movement restrictions have disrupted supply chains.

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APRIL 30, 2020

Despatched to West Africa in 2014, Chiara Camassa draws on a wealth of experience as she helps Haiti respond to the pandemic Chiara standing at WFP’s warehouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Since arriving in the Caribbean country four months ago, Camassa has been the WFP ‘focal point’ for COVID-19 issues?—?largely

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MARCH 1, 2019

Spurring innovation, food safety and quality capacity strengthening and economic resilience This year’s Africa Day of School Feeding comes at the heels of the first ever Future of Food Safety Conference held at the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. School meals programmes are an investment in Africa’s future.

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JULY 21, 2020

The European Union partners with WFP and UNHAS to provide humanitarian air transport in Kenya and beyond. Photo: WFP/Alessandro Abbonizio In early April the Government of Kenya effected movement restrictions from and into the Nairobi Metropolitan Zone in a bid to control the spread of COVID-19.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

The country is teetering on the brink as people struggle to find clean drinking water, medicines and nutritious food WFP response to Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe, earlier this year. Photo: WFP/Tatenda Macheka With the lean season in full swing, southern Africa is in the grip of unprecedented climate-driven disaster.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Nutritious to the core, beans, lentils and co are a key part of WFP food assistance?—?and Photo: WFP/ Martin Karimi Report by Peyvand Khorsandi, Sophie Smeulders and Tiziana Grassetti Today is World Pulses Day when the likes of beans, chickpeas, cowpeas, split peas and peas take a bow. I am so happy as they are strong now’’.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

Photo: WFP/Jorcilina de Almeida Correia By Alessandro Valori “Each day, I share a meal with my students to foster a sense of community, and seeing them smile makes me very happy,” says Paul Jorge, the Director of the school of Batep’a, in São Tomé and Príncipe, Africa’s second smallest country? Photo: WFP/Alessandro Valori.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

WFP is supporting small businesses joining up to provide nutritious fresh fruit juices to vulnerable women Pregnant women with cups of nutritious juice from LiveOnce Juicers. Photo: WFP/Francis Thawani “Most pregnant women at this hospital are susceptible to anaemia?—?one one of the leading causes of maternal mortality,” he says.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Eswatini in southern Africa has the world’s highest HIV rate, leaving 58 percent of children there vulnerable Nsulutane: one of the 1,700 Neighbourhood Care Points for children around Eswatini, where 27.2 Photo: WFP/Claudia Altorio He then started attending school. percent of the population is HIV-positive. Eswatini?—?which

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MARCH 21, 2019

World Food Programme (WFP) preparing to assist up to 600,000 people in Mozambique Please help WFP save lives in Mozambique. As WFP satellite imagery indicates up to 1.7 As WFP satellite imagery indicates up to 1.7 Photo: WFP/Photolibrary While it will take time to establish the exact number of victims?—?the

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MARCH 18, 2019

With floods triggered by Cyclone Idai submerging much of the city of Beira, WFP is hoping for the best?—?but Photo: WFP/Photolibrary The port city, half a million strong, supplies both the interior of central Mozambique and, further inland, the landlocked nations of Zimbabwe and Malawi. but planning for the worst.

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

Photo: WFP/Marwa Awad Less than one week before I flew to Burkina Faso in November, with the emergencies team at the World Food Programme (WFP), miners working for a Canadian-owned goldmine were on their way to work when militants ambushed and attacked them, killing 39 and injuring 60. A third of Burkina Faso is now a conflict zone.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Photo: WFP/Ratanak Leng So much of our humanity revolves around food. As the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger, the World Food Programme (WFP) provides assistance? —?from Photo: WFP/Cassandra Prena Food is hope “Honestly, this was the beginning of hope for us,” says Salem. or one in nine?—?do

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MARCH 6, 2020

Photo: WFP/Sabrina Quezada Ardila The water reservoir shortly after being built, while Mylaydi shows one of the tilapia that she reproduces and breeds. Photos: WFP/Sabrina Quezada Ardila “The largest tilapia already weighs about 2.5 Tilapia is a freshwater fish native to Africa that easily reproduces in captivity.

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MARCH 26, 2020

‘This was lifesaving as most of us had lost our entire crop and had nothing to eat at home’ For 15 years, the Dutch Postcode Lottery has donated flexible funds to support the World Food Programme (WFP) where needs are greatest. And when it hit, WFP was already responding to seven critical emergencies around the world.

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MARCH 31, 2020

How the World Food Programme will continue its work saving and changing millions of lives despite the virus Dominican Republic: WFP Representative, Romain Sirois, helps supply protective gear such as masks and gloves to canteens distributing food to the most vulnerable. These include the 11.6 These shipments included US$1.4

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Photo: WFP/Martin Karimi Rebecca and Yusuf are grade 3 and 4 pupils at Sosobora primary school, about 45 minutes west of Malindi town in Kilifi County. Photos: WFP/Martin Karimi Francis and Loise Thuva, Rebecca and Yusuf’s parents, have five other children.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

“I don’t want my children to be talking to WFP in 25 years” How food and cash from the European Union provide life-saving regular support to Somali refugees in Ethiopia until they can get back on track Hinda and Sumaya. Photo: WFP/Edward Johnson Hinda was born in eastern Ethiopia 25 years ago to Somali parents.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

10 things you may have missed about WFP Uganda in 2019 The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) works to save lives, build livelihoods and strengthen Uganda’s capacity to end hunger. WFP impacts food markets, productivity, processing and standards and enables regional supply chains in support of the country’s development.

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MARCH 2, 2020

million people unsure where their next meal will come from, WFP is finding creative ways to support the Government By Abdulaziz Abdulmomin Participants in WFP’s Productive Safety Nets resilience-building project prepare ground for cultivation. Photo: WFP/Muhammad Salah. Clearing the way for hope in Sudan With 6.2

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JUNE 2, 2020

Photo: WFP/Sayed Asif Mahmud Global hunger isn’t about a lack of food. Yvette Musabyimana from Rwanda, with her corn harvest Photo: WFP/Jonathan Eng Here’s what you need to know: 1. Consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa each year 5. This amounts to about 1.3

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