What you need to know: The funding shortfall has forced humanitarian agencies to reduce food rations, strained health services, and weakened education support. Humanitarian partners and local leaders ...

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has called on supporters to join its Ramadan fundraising campaign to help families facing food insecurity and buil ...

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PARIS, March 6 (Reuters) - World food prices rose in ⁠February ⁠after falling for five straight ⁠months, as higher cereal, meat and most vegetable oil prices outweighed declines in cheese and sugar, ...

Cindy McCain’s tenure running the World Food Programme will end prematurely. The executive director announced on 26 February that she planned to resign for health reasons following a stroke in October ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The United States intends to nominate an American to lead the United Nations World Food Programme in coming weeks, a State Department spokesperson said, after Cindy ...

ROME (AP) — U.N. World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain announced on Thursday that she will step down as the head of the humanitarian organization in three months to focus on her health.

Cindy McCain announced Thursday she will step down as executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), citing health issues. McCain, who had a mild stroke in October and returned ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Cindy McCain intends to step down as head of the United Nations World Food Programme, she said on Thursday, months after she suffered a mild stroke. "I had truly hoped I ...

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Cindy McCain announced Thursday that she is stepping down as head of the World Food Programme, citing health issues and expressing that the work has been "the honor of a lifetime." "I had truly hoped ...