North Korea needs to allow more access and monitoring for international aid, the head of the UNs World Food Programme said Tuesday following a four-day visit to the country. The WFP is one of the few ...

The UN food agencys director urged the European Union on Monday to help raise the $1 billion needed over the next few months to save hundreds of thousands of children from starving to death in Yemen ...

LONDON (Reuters) - United Nations food chief David Beasley said on Friday he was hopeful that "good Houthis" would prevail to allow the agency to lift its partial suspension of aid in Yemen and ...

CAIRO -- In the wake of an internal survey detailing multiple allegations of rape and sexual harassment of its female staffers, the leader of the World Food Program is vowing to go after abusers.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that famine – already present in four countries – could become a reality for millions of people around the world, without urgent funding to ...

Little Ms Kenya 2019 Briana Nyambura, 12 and Tiny Mr Kenya Jessie Smith, six, give food donations to Kwa Rhonda residents on Saturday. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] The world today has the largest number ...

The world faces an exponential increase in hunger fuelled by the climate crisis if urgent global action to help communities adapt to climatic shocks and stresses is ignored, the United Nations World ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A food security survey of Yemen due to be issued on Thursday will show an increase in acute hunger but the situation may not meet all the criteria to declare a famine, World Food ...

Executive Director David Beasley of the World Food Program (WFP) has tested positive for coronavirus. In a statement alerting his colleagues and the world that he has tested positive for coronavirus, ...

(Reuters) - Vulnerabilities in the world's food supply system have been laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic, making global leaders more aware that if not fixed they could mean famine and mass migration ...