𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: Devastating drought and floods in Southern Africa: WFP Chief calls for global action as millions face food insecurity.

'What I’ve seen in Zambia is not just alarming, it is heartbreaking,” - says Cindy McCain in #Zambia .

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📍𝗦𝘂𝗱𝗮𝗻 | In an interview with Al Jazeera English, WFP's spokesperson 𝗠𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻, reiterates the need for humanitarian access.

He started by explaining the obstacles WFP faces to deliver aid to areas in Sudan that need it most.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#Darfur
#Khartoum

My conversation with Alex De Waal on the right to food and starvation for EJIL:Talk!, now in writing thedial.world/state-of-the-w…

I’ve been in this business for 50 years and have never seen the impunity we see today globally.

Impunity stops when we raise our voices.

See my interview with Al Jazeera English: bit.ly/3wxHNU1

Hundreds of thousands of people have now been displaced from Rafah and life has been made even harder for families like Khaled's and Fatimah's.

🆘 Despite immense challenges, WFP and our partners continue to try and reach families in need with critical food assistance.

We should all hang our heads in shame

🚨 Starvation cannot be used as a weapon of war.

The proliferation of conflict forces people to leave their homes & lands, destroys infrastructure & restricts access to life-saving assistance. This threatens food security further to historic levels.

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Famine is NEVER
🔴 Inevitable
🔴 Unforeseen
🔴 Unstoppable

Food assistance during crises can make the difference between life and death. #FightFamine

#Gaza : 'We have very little food and fuel coming through the border crossings in the south and we are always trying hard, but failing currently to bring in consistent volumes of food' - Matthew Hollingworth, World Food Programme Palestine Country Director

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‘People here don't understand how the world is allowing this to happen.' Neither can aid workers news.un.org/en/interview/2…

For the first time since March, a Humanitarian Air Service aircraft has landed at the airport of Port-au-Prince.

Current international efforts must include an equally robust humanitarian assistance.

We're ready to deliver and support people in need.

'We have not been able to get the aid in at scale.'

Cindy McCain, executive director of the World Food Programme, tells @AmolRajan about the evidence of famine in the north of Gaza.

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'You and I will both do anything to feed our children and that's exactly what we're seeing there.'

Executive director of the World Food Programme Cindy McCain speaks to Yalda Hakim about the lack of food entering south Gaza crossings.

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'Imagine a child wasting into the size of a skeleton” - the Executive Director of the World Food Programme Cindy McCain Cindy McCain describes extreme #Hunger & #Famine in #Gaza and begs “those in charge”, that is #Israel , to allow #humanitarian aid in.

In speed & scale, the war in Gaza is the deadliest conflict in my time as Secretary-General – for civilians, aid workers, journalists & United Nations colleagues.

Yet the toll on civilians continues to escalate.

Any assault on Rafah is unacceptable. It would inflict another surge of

Secretary-General António Guterres is appalled by the escalation of military activity in and around Rafah by the Israeli Defense Forces. These developments are further impeding humanitarian access and worsening an already dire situation. un.org/sg/en/content/…

Nearly 450,000 Gazans now uprooted from #Rafah as Israeli bombardment continues, UNRWA estimates.

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Devastated to learn of the death and injury of United Nations team members in Gaza yesterday. World Food Programme stands united with the global humanitarian community in mourning our 190+ colleagues killed in Gaza. Aid workers are not – and should never be – a target. #NotATarget

'I don't want hear ever somebody tell me that there is a safe place in Gaza because there is not. Where is this safety? Because people are leaving for this safety, but there is no safety.' Louise Wateridge on the dire situation on the ground in Rafah