Five days food supplies left in Gaza, warns WFP
- 05-Nov-2023
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director, Cindy McCain has warned that five days of food supplies are left in Gaza. The WFP estimates that at the shop level, current stocks of essential food commodities will be sufficient for about five more days. “Access to bread is increasingly challenging. The only operative mill […]
Hunger haunts Ethiopia’s Tigray region after years of war
- 10-Jul-2023
Curled up on a hospital bed in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, an emaciated little girl struggles to breathe, as her father softly strokes her gaunt face and her mother sits crying. Tsige Shishay, whose pink sweater reads “beautiful” on the front, is 10 years old but weighs just 10 kg (22 lb). Her doctor says […]
Pakistan airports to facilitate UN food program for Afghanistan aid
- 29-Aug-2021
KARACHI: In order to facilitate the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP), the Civil Aviation Authority has decided to allow UN planes to use Pakistani runways to take off for Afghanistan, ARY News reported. In order to dispatch food and essential items to Kabul, the tarmac of Pakistani airports will be used, said today the […]
World Food Programme wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
- 09-Oct-2020
The Rome-based organisation says it helps some 97 million people in about 88 countries each year, and that one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat
WFP assistance helped control malnutrition, stunting in Sindh: CM
- 05-Apr-2018
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said that the provincial government, with the assistance of World Food Programme (WFP), was working hard to resolve the issues of malnutrition and stunting.
WFP to provide Rs200m to enhance Fata girls’ enrollment in schools
- 14-Mar-2017
PESHAWAR: Country Director World Food Programme (WFP) Binbarr Curran on Tuesday announced to provide Rs200 million to enhance Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) girls’ enrollment in schools. In a meeting with Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, a WFP delegation led by its country director Binbarr Curran informed the governor that Rs200 million would be […]
BISP, WFP, IRMNCH & NP Punjab sign agreement on nutrition in social protection
- 21-Nov-2016
ISLAMABAD: Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), World Food Program (WFP) and Integrated Reproductive Mother Neonatal Child Health Programme and Nutrition Program Punjab (IRMNCH & NP) signed an agreement on an operational research project for the prevention of undernourishment within social protection in Pakistan. The agreement was signed by Country Director WFP ad interim Stephen Gluning […]