The organization claimed that 90,000 people are suffering from malnutrition, and nine people have died from it within the ...

Israeli gunfire on Sunday killed dozens of Palestinians seeking aid, leading to warnings from groups like the World Food Programme of the worsening conditions in Gaza. Cindy McCain, Executive Director ...

David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Program: It's a very serious problem. And it's a very serious problem all over the world, Nick. And we're facing an unprecedented food crisis ...

A Yemeni boy receives humanitarian aid donated by the World Food Program in Taez, Yemen, on Saturday. (Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP/Getty Images) Last week, the Norwegian Nobel Committee named this year’s ...

U.N. WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CINDY MCCAIN: Good morning. MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about a few hotspots in Africa, but let's start first on the Middle East if we could.

World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize The Rome-based United Nations agency has long specialized in getting assistance to some of the world’s most dangerous and precarious places and ...

"Even before Covid-19 virus turned our world upside down, we were facing a perfect storm already," says the Executive Director of the World Food Program, former South Carolina Governor David ...

The World Food Programme is the world’s leading humanitarian organization fighting hunger and promoting food security. Founded in 1961, the UN branch aided 97 million people around the world ...

World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley was in the Niger capital Niamey in the Sahel—a vast sweep of semi-arid land that separates the Sahara from the Savannah—when he got the ...

Zambia has faced growing climate challenges—from floods to prolonged droughts—impacting crops and deepening food insecurity. In this five-part series, follow a United Nations World Food Programme ...