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Students harvest cabbage in the restive North Kivu, DRC, where many WFP-supported school meal programs also encourage communities to grow vegetables to supplement their diets.

In crisis-hit parts of Africa, WFP school meals offer a vital lifeline to kids - and their families

WFP Social ProtectionAs African governments mark a decade of progress on school feeding, the push is on to get more children on board.

A man singing.

Sixty Seconds With... AfroCongo music star Innoss’B: School meals, ending hunger and DRC

WFPThe singer-songwriter – and World Food Programme High-Level Supporter – on dreaming big against the odds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

a cargo flight from WFP’s newly established Global Humanitarian Response Hub in Liège, Belgium arrived in Burkina Faso carrying almost 16 metric tons of medical cargo and personal protective equipment like masks and gloves on behalf of UNICEF and the Inte

WFP: Without funds, ‘no choice’ but to suspend most aid flights

Children at an internally displaced persons camp in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.

Conflict-hit Nigerian families living under COVID-19 lockdowns, on ‘life-support’

Africa COVID-19

Humanitarian aid being prepared by workers for loading next to airplane.

COVID-19: Humanitarian air deliveries to Africa ramped up with dispatch from UN's new cargo hub in Belgium

Africa COVID-19

Child sitting amidst sacks of relief grain in Lesotho: Emergency aid is vital, but “just shipping in food is not enough,” says UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan: Poverty and other causes of famine must also be addressed. Photograph: WFP / R. Lee

Famine spreads across Africa

With 38 million facing starvation, “business as usual will not do”

Zambia's withered grain fields: Does genetically modified relief food pose health risks? Photo: ©WFP / Brenda Barton

Controversy rages over 'GM' food aid

Zambia, citing health concerns, bars genetically modified grain

The UN Secretary-General has appointed former Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy as his special envoy to help resolve the border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea

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Africa civil society

As schools reopen across Guinea, WFP is resuming its school meals programme in all four regions of the country.

UN agency expands meals programme to more than 1,600 schools across Guinea

Une distribution de nourriture du PAM dans l’école primaire de St. Matthew, dans le district de Chikwawa, au Malawi, le pays le plus touché d’Afrique australe par l’insécurité alimentaire. Photo : PAM / David Orr

UN agencies expand operations in southern Africa as poor harvests deepen food insecurity

Africa food insecurity

People gather at Mikolongo school in Chikwawa district, Malawi, to receive rations of maize, pulses, oil and fortified corn soya blend from WFP to prevent malnutrition.

Malawi facing worst food crisis in decade, requires $81 million in relief aid – UN agency

Un travailleur de santé mesure le bras d’un petit garçon pour évaluer son état nutritionnel à Juba, au Soudan du Sud. Photo UNICEF/Christine Nesbitt

UN agencies boost effort to avoid ‘catastrophic loss’ of young children’s lives in South Sudan

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