Despite modest improvements, most people in Gaza still face severe hunger, with limited aid, funding shortages, and restricted access threatening recovery and food security.

A child wades through water  in Uvira, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, after El Niño-induced torrential rains caused Lake Tanganyika to overflow in 2024. El Niño is one of the world's strongest climate patterns, bringing droughts, floods and extreme weather that damage crops, disrupt markets and drive hunger in vulnerable communities. Because its impacts can be forecast months in advance, governments and humanitarian agencies have a critical window to act before food crises escalate. Through anticipatory action—such as cash assistance, food support, early-warning systems and climate monitoring—the World Food Programme helps families protect their livelihoods and reduce future losses. 

WFP has been providing food and other humanitarian assistance to Ebola-affected areas: hot meals to patients, family members and health workers; along with take-home food rations and nutrition support to other vulnerable people that together reach more than 1.2 million Congolese. Why? Because Food assistance helps patients and family members remain under observation, reduces the need for people to travel in search of food, and supports wider efforts to contain the spread of Ebola. In addition, WFP is providing logistics, telecommunications and air transport to move humanitarian workers and essential cargo to the frontlines of the Ebola crisis in eastern DRC.  WFP warns that conflict, displacement and rising food prices are worsening the crisis and is seeking US$72 million to sustain the Ebola response.

Can art change the way we see a humanitarian crisis? A powerful traveling exhibition is bringing deeply personal stories from Gaza to audiences across Europe through paintings created amid conflict, loss, and uncertainty. Tens of thousands have flocked to see Ahmed Muhanna's paintings of food insecurity and survival in Gaza. With his painting supplies running out during Gaza's war, Muhanna swapped acrylics for charcoal and coffee, and canvas for WFP food boxes. The exhibition invites visitors to look beyond headlines and statistics to the human experiences behind them. 

From Indonesia to Afghanistan, fortified biscuits travel 15,000 km across closed borders and conflict zones to reach Afghan schoolchildren who rely on WFP meals.

WFP warns Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is spreading rapidly, worsening hunger, displacement, and overwhelming fragile humanitarian response systems.

WFP-backed Nashonuma programme reduces child stunting in Pakistan through nutrition support, counselling, and maternal health services.

Afghan mother Raqiba Ahmadi struggles daily to feed six children as worsening hunger and funding cuts threaten vital nutrition assistance.

UN agencies warn that 2.2 million young children are suffering from acute malnutrition, and 7.8 million people are at risk of hunger.

A prolonged Middle East crisis is driving up fuel and food costs worldwide, pushing millions closer to hunger as disrupted supply chains hit the most vulnerable communities hardest.

War, hunger, and displacement continue devastating millions in Sudan, as aid struggles to keep pace with worsening humanitarian needs and funding gaps.

Global shipping disruptions, including closures of the Strait of Hormuz and rerouting via the Cape of Good Hope, are delaying food aid, raising costs, and reducing assistance.

Reduced WFP food assistance in Uganda has plunged refugees like Namahirwe and her nine children into hunger and hardship, threatening both their survival and long-term self-reliance.

Standing on top of a towering anthill in the arid fields of northeastern Somalia, 10-year-old Farah and his mother, Safiya Maxamed, cover their faces from the sun, as they keep watch over their handful of goats feeding off a pile of thorny branches. Out of their one hundred goats, only five have survived three consecutive failed rainy seasons.  Families who once relied on livestock have lost nearly everything, forcing them to cut meals or flee. Around 6.5 million people face severe hunger, nearly double in a year. Although aid from the World Food Programme previously prevented famine, reduced funding now limits help. Urgent international support is needed to scale up food assistance and prevent another humanitarian catastrophe.

Their teacher knows their journey

For thousands of students in Uganda’s Karamoja region, Teacher Evaline Akello is more than a teacher, she’s proof that their dreams are possible.

Evaline once sat where they sit now, a hungry child relying on the World Food Programme (WFP) school meals to stay in class. Today, her students see in her story a powerful message: with food, education and determination, their futures can be bigger than the challenges they face. Evaline's journey shows how one simple meal can change the course of not just one, but many lives.