The UN's World Food Programme said Sunday it was moving full throttle to get food to as many Gazans as possible after border crossings reopened as part of a long-awaited ceasefire deal. "We're trying to reach a million people within the shortest possible time,

The director of the U.N. World Food Program says that some governments are hesitant to boost funding for urgent humanitarian needs in Syria under the country's new interim rulers after the fall of former President Bashar Assad.

NEW YORK - US President Donald Trump "sees great promise in the United Nations if it focuses on its founding mission of international peace and security," his nominee to be ambassador told the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Jan 21.

Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the start earlier on Sunday of the ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza, as UN humanitarian convoys

Following the implementation of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the first aid deliveries have arrived, according to local security forces. The UN World Food Programme stated that aid was delivered to the Gaza Strip through both the Kerem Shalom border crossing in the south and Zikim in the north.

Executive director of the World Food Programme Cindy McCain speaks with the Associated Press in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday Jan. 14, 2025.(AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

A UN aid convoy is on its way in southern Sudan to the strategically important city of Wad Madani, carrying food and nutrition supplies for families at risk of famine.

Following the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) called on Thursday for unrestricted access to deliver urgently needed food and aid to the region.

More than two million people require humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations (UN) World Food Program said on Sunday. The UN made this known as trucks carrying humanitarian aid entering

The UNRWA has 4,000 truckloads of aid - half of which are food and flour - ready to enter the Palestinian enclave. The UN World Food Programme has said it has enough food ready to feed more than a mil