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FILE - Mothers along with babies who suffer from malnutrition wait to receive help and check-up at a clinic that run by the WFP, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Afghanistan has its ‘sharpest surge’ ever of child malnutrition, U.N. agency says

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FILE - People wait to receive food donations from the United Nations World Food Program in Damasak, northeastern Nigeria, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Chinedu Asadu, File)

U.N.’s food agency limits aid operations in West and Central Africa due to funding cuts

By Ope Adetayo - Associated Press

Palestinian children receive donated food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

U.N. food agency says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s blockade

By Wafaa Shurafa and Lee Keath - Associated Press

FILE - Food parcels provided by the World Food Program, part of the humanitarian aid shipments into Syria, are stacked at the Reyhanli border crossing with Syria, near Hatay, southern Turkey, Wednesday, May 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, Pool, File)

The U.S. ends lifesaving food aid for millions. The World Food Program calls it a ‘death sentence’

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Samy Magdy and David Biller - Associated Press

FILE - Hauwa Bwami's grandson Suleiman eats an orange-fleshed sweet potato, harvest from a farm inside their compound in Kaltungo Poshereng Nigeria, Sunday, June 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

U.N. food agency says 40 million people are struggling to feed themselves in West and Central Africa

By Wilson McMakin - Associated Press

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Global Citizen co-founder Hugh Evans, left, and Hugh Jackman speak during the Global Citizen Festival on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, at Central Park in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Humanitarians enlist entertainers and creators to reach impassioned youth during United Nations week

By James Pollard - Associated Press

A server ladles soup into a container as children line up to receive food at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Hunger soars and aid dwindles as gangs in Haiti suffocate the country

Associated Press

Sudanese refugees gather outside a field hospital in Acre, Chad, Aug. 15, 2023. The United Nations food agency has warned that it might end food assistance to 1.4 million refugees in Chad who fled the conflict in parts of the Sahel because of limited funding. The World Food Program says most of the refugees escaped the war in Sudan and crossed into Chad in the last six months in numbers not seen in the last 20 years. (AP Photo, File )

U.N. warns food aid for 1.4 million refugees in Chad could end over limited funding

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Palestinian worshippers pray outside Jerusalem's Old City while Israeli forces stand guard, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Israeli police limited access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque inside the Old City only to older men, women and children, trying to limit the potential for demonstrations against Israel's war against Hamas militants. Tens of thousands of worshippers attend on a typical Friday. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Egypt’s border crossing opens to let a trickle of desperately needed aid into besieged Gaza

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Women queue to receive cash at a money distribution site organized by the World Food Program in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 20, 2021. The U.N. food agency said Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, that it must drop another 2 million hungry people from food assistance in Afghanistan this month due to a massive funding shortfall. The action means that 10 million people will be cut off from the agency's support this year in the country, the World Food Program said in a statement. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

U.N. food agency drops aid to another 2 million hungry people in Afghanistan due to cash shortfall

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Women queue to receive cash at a money distribution site organized by the World Food Program in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 20, 2021. The U.N. food agency said Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, that it must drop another 2 million hungry people from food assistance in Afghanistan this month due to a massive funding shortfall. The action means that 10 million people will be cut off from the agency's support this year in the country, the World Food Program said in a statement. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

U.N. food agency drops aid to another 2 million hungry people in Afghanistan due to cash shortfall

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Program (WFP), speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. A halted landmark wartime grain deal that allowed grain Ukrainian grain to flow and donor fatigue is rattling the operations' of the United Nations food agency. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Halted Ukraine grain deal, funding shortages rattle U.N. food aid programs

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

A farmer collects harvest in a field 10 kilometers from the front line, around a crater left by a Russian rocket in the foreground, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, July 4, 2022. Agreements that the U.N. and Turkey brokered with Ukraine and Russia to allow food and fertilizer to get from the warring nations to parts of the world where millions are going hungry have eased concerns over global food security. But they face increasing risks. Moscow has ramped up its rhetoric, saying it may not extend the deal that expires Monday, July 17, 2023, unless its demands are met. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Why allowing Ukraine to ship grain during Russia’s war matters to the world

By Courtney Bonnell - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador Cindy McCain, wife of former Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, smiles as she arrives for the public ceremonial inauguration of Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs at the state Capitol in Phoenix, Jan. 5, 2023. On Thursday, March 2, 2023, McCain was appointed head of the U.N. World Food Program, the world’s largest humanitarian organization which aims to help nearly 150 million people confronting conflicts, disasters and impacts of climate change this year. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

U.S. ambassador Cindy McCain to head U.N. World Food Program

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press