United Nations leaders and agencies have welcomed the entry of a humanitarian aid convoy into Gaza via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt but noted that it is only a small beginning, still far......
The United Nations on Monday closed all its offices across Pakistan after a suicide attack on a World Food Programme office in the heart of the federal capital killed four persons, including an......
Warning that widespread closures of educational facilities present an unprecedented risk to children's education and wellbeing, the United Nations agencies have laid down guidelines for reopening......
The World Food Programme has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday. According to an official statement by the Committee, the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020......
India has expressed concern that foreign fighters involved in the conflict in Syria have moved to other places as mercenaries, as New Delhi underlined that it is ready to play a constructive role......
With over one billion people going to bed hungry, the United Nations has warned that the hunger index is rising and appealed to governments and civil societies to 'leverage every tool' to combat......
The United Nations food agency has sounded a fresh alarm that fast rising food prices across the globe are eroding its capacity to serve millions of people already dependent on it and the situation......
The United Nations has said it expects to register a 'dangerous and unprecedented' shortfall in budgetary allocations for its World Food Programme and as a result of which food aid to millions of......
Ahead of the G-8 summit in Italy, the World Food Programmeand the Food and Agricultural Organisationhas urged leaders of the top eight richest countries of the world not to forget the poor as they......
India is looking at massive agri-business opportunities in war-ravaged Iraq, including those for sale of wheat, rice, tea and sugar, the commodities which have a large demand in any humanitarians......