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May 5

📍In #Sudan: WFP distributions have started in Kassala State, since we resumed operations.👇 WFP has activated its highest level of emergency response and is planning to reach 384,000 people over the coming days. More assistance is on its way.

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On any given day, WFP has up to 5,600 trucks, 30 ships and 100 planes on the move, delivering food and other vital assistance around the world. Last year, we reached more people than ever before. Click to learn more about the UN World Food Programme.

12 things you didn’t know about the World Food Programme

Swiss Development and Cooperation and 6 others

WFP Asia Pacific

@WFPAsiaPacific

In Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh 🇧🇩, emergency preparedness is underway. In the Rohingya refugee camps, volunteers are spreading early warning messages & hoisting cautionary flags. WFP food outlets, where refugees get their monthly rations, are protected w/ tarpaulins. #CycloneMocha

UPDATE FROM #SOUTHSUDAN: WFP is supporting people crossing the border from #Sudan with food and nutrition assistance. ⬇️Leonidace Rugemalila, head of

@WFP_SouthSudan

's Field Office in Renk, explains from the ground.⬇️ Learn more about the situation: bit.ly/44GQojp

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Resilience of Smallholder Farmers in Gambella, Ethiopia

What happens when we work with small-scale and family farmers to increase and protect food production? Watch to get to know farmers like Ajulu in #Ethiopia, and understand the power of investing in local food systems. 🎥 bit.ly/3KWOh1O

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Alert‼️🚨🚨 In #Chad,

is calling for urgent funding to provide emergency food assistance to 2⃣.3⃣million people including new Sudanese refugees. More information👉bit.ly/42spo5E #SudanCrisis #Sudan_updates

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🔹Afghanistan 🔹Democratic Republic of Congo 🔹Ethiopia 🔹Nigeria 🔹Yemen Get the report: bit.ly/3nqLTZm

NEW: Global Report on Food Crises

Cindy McCain

@WFPChief

Just days ago, I met the amazing

@WorldVision

team on the frontlines of hunger in #Somalia. Today, I met their CEO

@andrewmorley0

in Rome. As

World Vision East Africa and 2 others

's largest cooperating partner worldwide, we discussed how we can deliver even better together for the millions we serve. Thank you!

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Clean cooking technology in #Chad is making meals ✅cheaper, ✅safer, and ✅healthier - for the people making them and the environment.🌎 bit.ly/44OCOdJ

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The clock is ticking in #Sudan. The conflict has unleashed widespread displacement, while the impending rainy season promises to make swathes of the country inaccessible.

WFP resumes food assistance in crisis-torn Sudan | World Food Programme

Deliveries aim to reach hundreds of thousands of hungry people, but humanitarian access is challenging

🚨 WFP is currently experiencing a severe funding shortfall in #Palestine, resulting in the suspension of assistance to over 200,000 people. 🎥 Watch the deputy spokesperson for the

@UN

secretary-general, Farhan Haq, explain the current situation in #Palestine.

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Arif Husain

@WFPChiefEcon

World Food Programme and 2 others

Domestic food inflation remains stubbornly high in many developing economies despite relatively lower international food commodity prices!

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Did you know, WFP is one of the largest purchasers of staple crops in Africa? In The #Gambia, 🍚 rice and 🫘 beans purchased from local smallholder farmers will be used to assist families across the country this rainy season. 🤝🔄💛

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🚨 The violence in #Sudan is forcing more families to flee to #Egypt. The needs are increasing! 🎥 Watch our very own Amina Al Korey

@AlkoreyAmina

, Head of Communications in #Egypt, explain the current situation at the Qustol border.

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The increasingly severe and frequent impacts of extreme weather caused devastation worldwide in 2022. In the face of the #ClimateCrisis, WFP is scaling up #AnticipatoryAction to protect people BEFORE disaster strikes. 🔗bit.ly/400Ncvs

Anticipatory Action: Year in Focus 2022

WFP South Sudan

@WFP_SouthSudan

Education is essential for communities to prosper and thrive✨

’s school meals promote school attendance and ensure children eat at least one nutritious meal a day #SouthSudan #SSOT

👋Welcome to the WFP team,

@distelzola

!👋 Professional footballer Distel Zola is raising awareness about healthy eating, #SchoolMeals, and nutrition in the Democratic Republic of Congo #DRC! ⚽🍚💙 👉bit.ly/44GyWvc

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🚨Urgent Update🚨

& partners responding to devastating floods in Kahele, South Kivu. Together, we are on the ground, delivering vital food assistance of 2 MT high energy biscuits to affected communities.

UN Humanitarian Air Service and 3 others

stands with the people of South Kivu during this challenging time.

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Rohingya parents like Shamsu Alam are sacrificing their own meals to feed their children. Due to a lack of funding, WFP has been forced to slash food assistance since March. Nearly one million #Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh rely on WFP assistance. 🔗 bit.ly/416kMBV

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UPDATE: WFP has reached over 35,000 people in #Sudan with lifesaving food assistance since operations restarted last week. The conflict has put millions on the move. WFP is supporting thousands more as they reach #Chad, #SouthSudan, #Egypt, and #CAR. bit.ly/3VP8USo

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The cost of food is soaring all across #Sudan, and the price of basic food items is expected to increase by 25% in the next three to six months.

Hunger set to hit record high in Sudan as fighting continues

Cindy McCain

@WFPChief

The large-scale theft going on right now in #Sudan is unacceptable. Nearly 25% of

Sudan Crisis: Guterres condemns looting of WFP compound in Khartoum

food has been stolen. Our offices are being looted. I call on all parties to this conflict to allow safe, unhindered access – let WFP deliver life-saving aid to millions of Sudanese in need.

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A new and innovative public-private-producer partnership in #Cambodia aims to foster more environmentally sound, socially equitable and economically viable development for smallholder farmers like Deur Sok.👇 Read more: bit.ly/3NYT0mC

Deur Sok, 52, uses his machete to clear the surroundings of his rice paddies in Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia. A WFP-supported canal supports year-round water management for farmers like Deur Sok, keeping rice harvests healthy. WFP/Samantha Reinders

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For the first time, students in #Venezuela are receiving fresh WFP-supported meals at school, WFP's

@LauraIMelo

explains ⬇️ WFP aims to reach one million children and staff by the end of 2023. 🥬📚🧠 bit.ly/3ptpriK

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WFP's work is... ➡️Saving lives: WFP assistance makes the difference between life and death for millions caught up in crises. ➡️Changing lives: WFP supports communities to adapt to the climate crisis, become more resilient, access good nutrition, and improve food systems.

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WFP Sudan

@WFP_Sudan

“If we leverage our humanitarian imperative, we will be able to reach the many people who need our assistance,”

Sudan 🇸🇩 Country Director Eddie Rowe Read more about how we are ramping up to support vulnerable ppl in #Sudan ➡️

WFP resumes food assistance in crisis-torn Sudan | World Food Programme

Deliveries aim to reach hundreds of thousands of hungry people, but humanitarian access is challenging

🚨Around 70,000 people have fled to #Egypt from #Sudan in the wake of the ongoing fighting. 🎥Watch

Egypt Country Director, Praveen Agrawal

@Agrawal_P_K

, on the current situation at the Qastal border. We’re working to ensure everyone has something to eat.

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Jamilla's family lived off rich farmland in southwest Somalia. Today, they're among over 350,000 Somalis living in Dadaab refugee camp in #Kenya. As drought drags on and more people's fields dry up, WFP support for refugee families becomes stretched.

Hit by multiple crises, tens of thousands of Somalis flock to refugee camps in Kenya | World Food...

WFP and other humanitarian agencies struggle to assist an influx of refugees reeling from conflict, climate and high prices

"We're having to prioritise between hungry people..." WFP's Country Director updates from #SouthSudan, ⬇️ where more than 40,000 people have so far arrived after fleeing fighting in neighbouring #Sudan. 📌Get the latest: bit.ly/44GQojp

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The long & exhausting journey families take to flee the violence in #Sudan to #Egypt completely depletes any food they may have managed to bring. That’s the case for 70,000 people who crossed into Egypt.

World Food Programme and 2 others

is right there with emergency food IMMEDIATELY upon their arrival.

In Central America, building climate resilience together

These women in rural Central America are banding together as they look for new ways to feed their families in the face of increasing climate extremes. 🎥 Watch the full story: bit.ly/41I0DCa

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Praveen Agrawal

@Agrawal_P_K

On our way to Qustol as part of a UN inter-agency mission, where ppl are feeling the crisis in #Sudan. In cooperation w.

@EG_Red_Crescent

is providing immediate food assistance to those crossing the borders, providing essential support to those who need it most

Yellowed leaves and shriveled crops are just two signs of the heatwave in #Iraq. It's also uprooting rural populations. Read how WFP is equiping thousands of smallholder farmers like Jermal to protect themselves, their lands and entire communities.

How WFP empowers farmers in Iraq in the face of climate extremes | World Food Programme

Rising temperatures and drought threaten critical agricultural production in Iraq as the country becomes the world’s fifth most vulnerable to climate-related shocks.

Global Report on Food Crises 2023

António Guterres

@antonioguterres

May 7

Humanity’s failure to make progress towards ending hunger & achieving food security is unconscionable. We have the data & know-how to build a #ZeroHunger world. What we need is collective action & a commitment to change.

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Nearly 4 million young children and mothers were acutely malnourished in #Sudan before the conflict erupted. These numbers are bound to increase as fighting continues. WFP has restarted lifesaving operations but access remains critical. Learn more: bit.ly/44B3Q8i

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According to the new Global Report on Food Crises #GRFC, more than a quarter of a billion people faced acute food insecurity in 2022. That's 100 million more compared to before the pandemic. Get the report: bit.ly/3nqLTZm

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Only a small percentage of land in #Mauritania is cultivable. And increasingly severe climate extremes are degrading the #soil that is available. ⬇️Watch to see how land can transform for the better with these climate adaptation techniques.⬇️

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Cindy McCain

@WFPChief

May 6

What I have seen in #Somalia is heartbreaking and unacceptable. Conflict & drought are devastating millions of lives. 6.5 million people face extreme hunger. Nearly 500k children are at risk of dying right now. We cannot turn our backs on the Somali people. Lives are at stake.

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Last year, WFP food assistance was critical to eradicating famine-like conditions for an estimated 161,000 people in #Yemen. Humanitarian assistance remains a lifeline. But WFP’s operations for the next six months are only 20% funded. bit.ly/44vpOK1

Abdulwasa, 70, purchases vegetables using WFP cash assistance in Yemen. Abdulwasa is one of 1.4 million people receiving WFP cash assistance every month. WFP/Hani Saleh

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WFP and

🤝 join hands to advance programmes that enable communities to adapt to the climate crisis and accelerate nature-friendly #FoodSystems, water resource management and ecosystems restoration.