ELTAYEB SIDDIG , NAFISA ELTAHIR, KHALED ABDELAZIZ and OLIVIA LE POIDEVIN report on the impacts of El Niño in Sudan...

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At AidEx 2026 in Geneva, Dubai Humanitarian emphasised the urgent need for a stronger Global Safety Net and resilient supply chains amid growing crises.

The number of people helped by the UN agency in the Palestinian territory will drop by about a third - from 1.6 million to 1.1 million.

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The UN WFP has said funding shortages are forcing major cuts to its aid program in Gaza, leaving 500,000 people without monthly food support.

via World news | The Guardian — Two-thirds of population face crisis levels of food insecurity and 200,000 people are in danger of famine This winter is likely to deepen hunger for Palestinians in Gaza, after sweeping aid cuts forced the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) to end support for more than half a million people each month, the agency’s director for Palestine said. More than a year after a Trump-brokered ceasefire came into force, promised reconstruction has not begun, there are few jobs and the vast majority in Gaza st

via PBS News Hour - The Latest — The United Nations recently announced a new executive director for the World Food Programme. Luke Lindberg was a Trump administration Agriculture Department official and inherits one of the UN's toughest jobs. Hundreds of millions around the world go hungry every day, and reaching as many as possible is a monumental task. Nick Schifrin discussed more with Carl Skau, the acting director of the WFP.

The acting chief of the World Food Programme on Monday said the agency was ramping up its response to the escalating crisis in Yemen.

The World Food Programme's funding for Sudan - the world's largest hunger crisis - has fallen by about half this year, its acting head said.