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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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JULY 28, 2020

Rahaf, 2-year-old, is diagnosed with Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) at a WFP-supported nutrition centre in Al Fayoush, Lahj, in Yemen. Photo: WFP/Martin Karimi At the same time, facing a loss of income and disruptions in food markets, many families won’t be able to provide nutritious foods for their children.

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JUNE 11, 2020

Photo: WFP/Claire Nevill Before the coronavirus pandemic struck, the streets of Epworth?—?a Photo: WFP/Claire Nevill Last month, 38-year-old Maidei welcomed me into the two-roomed concrete house she shares with her husband and four children in the heart of Epworth. She used to go without lunch until WFP assistance came in.

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APRIL 2, 2019

Inauguration of a Regional Center of Excellence against Hunger and Malnutrition: a ray of hope for West and Central Africa The Regional Center of Excellence against hunger and malnutrition based in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, was inaugurated last Monday, on March 25th 2019, carrying hopes and promises for a region in the grip of Hunger and Malnutrition.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Photo: WFP/ Gabriela Vivacqua It never rains in South Sudan. A changing climate Some areas in East Africa have received a year’s worth of rains in a few weeks. Photo: WFP/Gabriela Vivacqua Achol Mabior has seen it all in her village of Makuach, Aweil center some 300 km south of the border with Sudan. Quite literally.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Photo: WFP/Bruno Djoyo The endless cycle of violence in the Central African Republic is creating increasing despair in the country. Photo: WFP/Bruno Djoyo Aïchatou is in Bangassou, a town which is located 750 km from the country’s capital of Bangui. Photo: WFP/Bruno Djoyo “The area is not secure. a partner organization.

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MAY 1, 2019

Photo: WFP/photo library She has been working with WFP for more than ten years, facing some of the most challenging emergencies, all over Indonesia and even West Africa. She joined WFP in the aftermath of the historic Aceh tsunami?—?and And all over Aceh, there were a lot of WFP women working in the field.

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APRIL 21, 2020

million children suffering from acute hunger and malnutrition in South Sudan Photo: WFP/Gabriela Vivacqua Two-year-old Nyan Nayek lies listless on the floor at Al-Sabah Hospital in Juba, South Sudan. World leaders call on WFP to lead COVID-19 fight in Africa After six years of civil war, South Sudan? This year, 1.3

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Congo weathers treacherous floods WFP is responding to the worst flooding along the Ubangi river since 1999, with 50,000 displaced Liboko village in Likouala is submerged, after the worst floods since 1999. Photo: WFP/Jean-Martin Bauer “We need help, now. We have been flooded out of our homes!” They will take their food home by canoe.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

Photo: WFP/ Damilola Onafuwa Written by Kevwe Okporua. With nearly 45,000 confirmed cases (at the time of writing), Nigeria is the country with the highest number of people with coronavirus in West Africa. WFP and partners are collecting data about those most in need of support. Rukkaya Umar says 2020 has been difficult.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Photo: WFP/Badre Bahaji The figures are eye-watering: enough food to feed the world’s 7 billion people while one in nine people goes to bed hungry every night. The World Food Programme’s (WFP) # StopTheWaste campaign aims to shine a spotlight on this global issue and highlight simple solutions we can all take to prevent it.

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MARCH 16, 2020

Photo: WFP/Rein Skullerud “It is still too early for an accurate assessment of the impact of Covid-19 on the economy,” says the World Food Programme (WFP)’s Chief Economist, Arif Husain, speaking from an eerily quiet, locked-down Rome. for example in Sub-Saharan Africa?—?a an area where WFP has longstanding expertise?—?and

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MAY 5, 2020

Photo: WFP As COVID-19 spreads to the farthest corners of the world, the technological and digital divides further complicate prevention. Chad is a vast, yet scarcely populated country in north-central Africa. WFP will provide emergency food assistance for the most vulnerable Chadians in both rural and urban settings.

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APRIL 23, 2020

To mark International Girls in ICT Day, a look at information and communication tech’s potential to empower Somalia: A woman uses her mobile phone to order food from an online shop at a WFP distribution centre in Mogadishu, Somalia. In South Asia and Africa these proportions stand at 70 percent and 34 percent, respectively.”

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