📌Two World Food Programme convoys have crossed into Gaza from Ashdod Port through Kerem Shalom border crossing point on April 16th & 17th.
🟢First convoy comprised 8 trucks, 7 trucks in the second convoy, totaling 374 tons of wheat flour.
🟢Today, 14 trucks are being loaded & will depart soon

“The [World Bank] needs a fit-for-purpose mission and vision, and that is to create a world free from poverty on a livable planet,' 𝗔𝗷𝗮𝘆 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗮, the president of the World Bank, told journalists the climate crisis would be a priority.

Fiona Harvey reports.
#WBGMeetings

🔴This week in #Gaza , 3 WFP convoys with enough food and wheat flour for nearly 80,000 people crossed into the north from the Erez crossing for the first time.

🔴So far in April, 392 trucks carrying food have entered Gaza. This is nearly the same rate as March but half that…

The humanitarian community 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗱𝗮𝗻 and we are scrambling to meet the growing needs.

WFP needs all promised financial contributions for our operation in #Sudan to translate into cash and we need urgent funds for #Chad and #SouthSudan .

At the 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 on Syria, Corinne Fleischer called for increased funds to reach at least 3 million severely food insecure people.

'Early recovery frees up humanitarian funds, buffers shocks & helps transition people off our assistance.'
EU Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid 🇪🇺
#Syria

𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗙𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵 | Timor-Leste facing high food insecurity, 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 warns.

🔵An estimated 360,000 people, grapple with crisis levels of food insecurity
🔵Situation predicted to worsen from May to September 2024.

Read details➡️tiny.cc/syxsxz

Climate extremes, conflict, and inflation have created a perfect storm of crises in #Ethiopia .

WFP has reached 3 million people so far this year. More support is needed to help communities cope today and break the cycle of urgent needs, says WFP's Carl Skau ⤵️

𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗮 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 | 3 convoys have crossed via Erez crossing point on 14, 15, and 16 April with a total of 25 trucks carrying around 404 metric tons of food parcels and wheat flour.

This is the first time for food supplies to cross into north Gaza through the Erez crossing.

📌𝗜𝗻 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳
🎙️ #Sudan : Hunger stalks the country - The Washington Post Journalists, Diana Z. Alhindawi and Katharine Houreld bring you the faces and voices.

🎙️ #Ethiopia : How WFP’s new digital system tracks and delivers to people facing severe hunger.

Read story➡️bit.ly/3Q5iBuC

🗨️'Some of the refugees told us we didn't die of war, now don't tell us we are going to die from hunger. We need robust assistance for refugees who fled. #Sudan ,' - WFP's 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗶 on a trip to #Chad .

Thank you Zein Basravi for your report.
Al Jazeera English

VIDEO: Palestinians wait for hours outside reopened bakery in Gaza City.

People in Gaza queue for hours to buy subsidised bread from a bakery in northern Gaza after fresh supplies from the World Food Programme (WFP) were able to enter heavily blockaded area

In Geneva for the #Ethiopia High-Level Pledging Event. With our revamped program World Food Programme has reached over 3 million people hit by acute food insecurity due to conflict & climate change. More funding needed to sustain & scale up aid, and invest in efforts to break the cycle of needs.

𝐈𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐧 | 'They are holding onto whatever last hope there is that this war can end because that's the last hope they have left.'

WFP spokesperson Leni Kinzli, was interviewed by ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis on the situation in #Sudan .

🎧More in this report⤵️

📌𝗘𝗹-𝗡𝗶𝗻̃𝗼 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀
🎙️ #Zimbabwe : Drought threatens agriculture and puts food production at risk. Read more tiny.cc/n3psxz

🎙️ #Zambia : An eye-opening story of El Niño's impact on farmers incomes and livelihoods. Sheleni shared her story with Reena Ghelani
#ElNino

IGAD Executive Secretary, H.E. Dr Workneh Gebeyehu, meets with Cindy McCain, Cindy McCain, to discuss the humanitarian situation in the region, with a specific focus on #Sudan .

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#Sudan Conference
#KeepEyesOnSudan

1️⃣ year of brutal conflict in #Sudan has brought the country to its knees.

Now, it's impact on the region risks triggering the world's largest hunger crisis.

⏩Swipe to understand the facts⏩

Iman's family in #Gaza depends on food aid.
World Food Programme is assisting over a million monthly despite obstacles.
To combat famine, access and a humanitarian ceasefire are crucial.
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𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗮𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗱𝗮𝗻! How has WFP's response evolved over this past year?

A question Al Jazeera English presenter Folly Bah Thibault, put to Michael Dunford, WFP regional director for East Africa.

🎧Listen to his response to this question and more⤵️
#Sudan Crisis #Sudan

📍𝗦𝘂𝗱𝗮𝗻 | The warring parties 'did not lose anything – we lost everything. They are taking everything away from us. They need to sit down, speak, and solve this,' mother displaced by war.

Read our story👉🏽bit.ly/49wiYoI
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#SudanSummit

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝗽 | A briefing by Food and Agriculture Organization and WFP on 'tackling Food insecurity in Haiti, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

📅 Wednesday, 17 April
🕒15:00-16:00 CEST
🗣️Listen to perspectives from Gian Carlo Cirri & Dominique Burgeon

Join the conversation➡️bit.ly/3TMiYuY