Burkina Faso ‘one step short of famine’, warns UN food relief agency

Unless access is urgently granted to humanitarian organizations, thousands in the Central Sahel will be “pushed into further destitution”, the UN emergency food relief agency warned on Monday.   https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/10/1075712
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Funding needed to halt ‘life threatening crisis’ facing refugees in Kenya 

17 Dec 2020

Amidst a “critical shortage” of resources, hundreds of thousands of refugees in Kenya will lack food unless new funds are swiftly received, the UN’s food relief agency warned on Thursday. 

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Amidst escalating needs and soaring hunger, refugees caught in the eye of the perfect storm  

20 Jun 2022

Further food ration cuts are imminent for refugees as humanitarian needs multiply around the world while funding struggles to keep pace, the UN food relief agency warned on Monday, World Refugee Day. 

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WFP appeals for urgent expanded access to Gaza as food supplies ‘dangerously low’

05 Nov 2023

The head of UN’s emergency food relief agency on Sunday issued an urgent appeal from the Rafah border crossing for safe, expanded humanitarian access to Gaza as critical food supplies in the ravaged enclave reach dangerously low levels.