The WFP says aid is being cut by 60 percent for the most vulnerable groups including pregnant women and disabled people.

About 3,000 jobs would be cut in a UN plan to slash up to 20 per cent in expenditure. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

He noted that the top 400 billionaires in the United States alone had seen a net-worth increase of $1.8 trillion in the past year. The $6 billion request amounted to just “.36% of your net-worth ...

Israeli gunfire on Sunday killed dozens of Palestinians seeking aid, leading to warnings from groups like the World Food Programme of the worsening conditions in Gaza. Cindy McCain, Executive ...

U.N. WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CINDY MCCAIN: Good morning. MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about a few hotspots in Africa, but let's start first on the Middle East if we could.

“Despite adequate global food production, millions of people go hungry or are malnourished because safe and nutritious food is not available, not accessible or, more often, not affordable,” states the ...