The deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Program has been on whirlwind visits to hotspots in the Middle East and Sudan to assess dire humanitarian situations and escalating demands for food from millions of people trapped or fleeing conflicts.
World Food Programme Chief Operating Officer, Carl Skau, discusses his recent trip to Syria and states there is a triple crisis in the country. Skau talks about Syrians facing food insecurities and the World Food Programme doing what it can to help those in need.
Britain on Sunday announced a 50 million pounds ($63 million) aid package to help vulnerable Syrians after rebels last week overthrew President Bashar al-Assad.
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), said in a social media post on Thursday that it had received credible reports that dozens of civilians, including women and children, were killed in airstrikes by Pakistan’s military forces in Paktika province,
Speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation," McCain said that crises around the globe, many of them in war zones, have depleted the coffers of her organization at a time of rampant malnutrition and starvation. She specified war-torn Syria first and foremost as a crisis spot.
The pseudo-left groups backed a war in which nearly 500,000 people lost their lives, nearly half of all the conflict-related deaths worldwide over the same period.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that Ukraine is coordinating food aid to Syria with its partners and the Syrian side. Source: President's address Quote: "Today, I discussed with our government officials - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food - the issue of food assistance under the Grain from Ukraine programme,
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine is ready to help Syria prevent a food crisis, in particular through the Grain from Ukraine humanitarian programme. Source: an address by Zelenskyy Quote: "Today,
Ukraine, a global producer and exporter of grain and oilseeds, is ready to supply food to Syria following the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Vitaliy Koval told Reuters on Friday.
The EU commissioner for crisis management Hadja Lahbib wrote on X she was "closely monitoring (the) evolving situation in Syria & in touch with partners in region, including UN." The UN's World Food Programme has separately called for $250 million in ...
To help Syrians in neighbouring countries, 10 million pounds will go to the World Food Programme (WFP ... in-a-generation chance for the people of Syria," foreign minister David Lammy said.
Cindy McCain, executive director of the World Food Programme, said Sunday the organization ... She specified war-torn Syria first and foremost as a crisis spot. “I’m asking on your show ...