New analysis shows that while access into Gaza has improved, only one crossing remains open, limiting the flow of essential goods that can assist with recovery and leaving the majority of the population dependent on humanitarian aid. The people of Gaza are still struggling to recover their livelihoods, local food systems and essential services.
Escalating attacks across northern Nigeria are driving displacement, restricting humanitarian access and pushing more people into severe food insecurity. Areas where food aid was suspended due to funding shortfalls are hardest hit.
WFP is rapidly scaling its operations in Venezuela and expanding food assistance aimed at reaching up to half a million people in the areas hardest hit by last week’s earthquakes.
This outbreak comes at a particularly dangerous moment: 26.5 million people across DRC are already facing acute food insecurity, with needs far outpacing the response.
WFP has scaled-up its emergency response in Akobo East, South Sudan, delivering vital food and nutrition assistance to hundreds of thousands of people facing catastrophic hunger and malnutrition, even as insecurity, infrastructure damage and the onset of the rainy season continue to hamper operations.
New data shows that 7.8 million people - 56 per cent of the population, among the highest in the world today – are facing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) between April and July 2026. This includes 73,300 people facing Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5)—the most severe level of hunger—while 2.5 million people are in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and 5.3 million in Crisis (IPC Phase 3).
With new data showing more than half of all Haitians continue to face acute food insecurity, WFP is urgently calling for support to protect recent fragile gains in the fight against hunger and to foster stability in the struggling Caribbean nation.
What began as a displacement crisis in Lebanon is now evolving into a deepening food security crisis, driven by conflict, economic collapse, rising
prices, and market disruptions. Nearly one million people have been displaced across Lebanon, while host communities opening their homes are facing the same economic pressures
as displaced families.
Lebanon was already struggling following years of compounding crises - economic collapse, conflict, and over stretched public institutions - and families had already exhausted their savings and coping capacity. This latest escalation leaves them vulnerable to slipping deeper into food insecurity.
Afghanistan remains one of the world’s most severe hunger crises with one in three Afghans—17.4 million people in urgent need of food assistance. Due to unprecedented funding shortfalls, this winter for the first time in decades, WFP is unable to mount a significant response, leaving millions without the support that once curbed hunger and malnutrition.
Sudan’s hunger crisis is man-made and driven by conflict. Over two and a half years of war have left 21.2 million people facing acute hunger and two areas confirmed in famine, but in areas where conflict has subsided, WFP’s reach has expanded and hunger has declined.
Since the start of 2025 there has been a spike in insurgent attacks in Northern Nigeria, fueling the biggest hunger crisis on record and threatening regional stability.
Heavy rain and falling temperatures are making life even harder for families living in tents and damaged buildings in Gaza. Flood waters have spoiled or washed away the food and supplies many families were storing. Overflowing sewage increases the risk of disease.
Three weeks into the ceasefire, the UN World Food Programme has distributed food parcels to one million people in the Gaza Strip as part of a broad operation to push back hunger in the war-torn territory. But to continue expanding operations to the level required, humanitarian teams need more border crossings to be opened and more access to key roads inside Gaza.
As the full extent of Hurricane Melissa’s destruction emerges, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is intensifying relief efforts in the hardest-hit areas to support local authorities. Almost 6 million people across Jamaica, Cuba, and Haiti have been impacted by the storm.
Since the ceasefire began (11 October), WFP has dispatched more than 530 trucks into Gaza to support bakeries, nutrition programmes and general food distributions.
WFP has begun scaling up its operations in Gaza, as the ceasefire paves the way for humanitarian agencies to reach vulnerable populations that have been cut off from vital aid.
The ceasefire will allow WFP to get food into Gaza at scale and to make sure it reaches everyone who needs it. WFP is on the ground, distributing in areas it can – and ready to scale up as safe access become possible in other areas. At the moment, practically 50% of population has poor access to food.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that rising violence by armed groups in Haiti’s capital is restricting humanitarian access and pushing families deeper into hunger as extreme funding shortfalls force WFP to slash rations and suspend programmes.
More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according to a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released today. Famine conditions are projected to spread from Gaza Governorate to Deir Al Balah and Khan Younis Governorates in the coming weeks.
The UN World Food Programme is distributing urgently needed food assistance to families displaced by recent clashes in southern Syria’s Sweida province while also continuing to provide a broad range of assistance across the country, including to Syrians returning home after a decade of conflict.
WFP has reached over two million people with life-saving assistance in South Sudan so far this year. However, a severe funding shortfall threatens ongoing support, placing millions at risk of losing aid.
WFP began airdropping emergency food assistance to thousands of families in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, where surging conflict since March has forced families from their homes and pushed some communities to the brink of famine and an estimated 50,000 asylum seekers across the border into Ethiopia.
Today WFP warned that millions of Sudanese refugees who have fled to neighbouring countries risk plunging deeper into hunger and malnutrition as critical funding shortages force drastic cuts to life saving food assistance.
For the outlook period from June to October 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to worsen across 13 countries and territories identified as hotspots and are issuing an early warning for urgent humanitarian action in these hotspots.
