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In this image taken from WFP video, David Beasley, Executive director of the World Food Program (WFP), center, celebrates with members of WFP staff in Niamey, Niger, Friday Oct. 9, 2020, after being awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace prize. The World Food Program has won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the globe. The announcement was made Friday in Oslo by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Nobel Committee. (WFP via AP)

Nobel win reflects ‘hunger for international cooperation’

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley speaks to the media about the organization's Nobel Peace Prize win, at the airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, late Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. The World Food Program won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting hunger and seeking to end its use as &quot;a weapon of war and conflict&quot; at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has driven millions more people to the brink of starvation. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

WFP chief: Nobel Prize message to world not to forget Sahel

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2019 file photo, a displaced Yemeni receives food aid provided by the World Food Program, at a school in Sanaa, Yemen. The World Food Program won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 9, 2020 for its efforts to combat hunger amid the coronavirus pandemic, recognition that shines light on vulnerable communities across the Middle East and Africa that the U.N. agency seeks to help, those starving and living in war zones that may rarely get the world’s attention.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

WFP fights hunger in food-deprived places, crises, war zones

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

One-month old Haboue Solange Boue, awaiting medical care for severe malnutrition, is held by her mother, Danssanin Lanizou, 30, at the feeding center of the main hospital in the town of Hounde, Tuy Province, in southwestern Burkina Faso on Thursday, June 11, 2020. With the markets closed because of coronavirus restrictions, her family sold fewer vegetables. Lanizou is too malnourished to nurse her. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Virus-linked hunger tied to 10,000 child deaths each month

By LORI HINNANT and SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

A watch repairer, wearing a face mask to protect himself from coronavirus, waits for customers on the street in Lagos Nigeria, Monday May 4, 2020. Though Nigeria begun a phased easing of its strict lockdown measures on Monday, its confirmed cases of coronavirus continue to increase. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Global emergency aid delivery could end next month, UN warns

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

UN seeks urgent funding for pandemic aid transport

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this picture taken on March 3, 2020 and provided by UNICEF, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore, center, and WFP Executive Director, David Beasley, left, seated, interact with 3rd grade children, at Tal-Amara school, southern Idlib, Syria. Fore expressed hope in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday that a cease-fire that went into effect in Syria will hold so that children can return to normal life adding that nearly one third of Syria's children are out of school. Fore visited Syria this week where she met officials and toured villages on the edge of the northwestern province of Idlib. (Omar Sanadiki/UNICEF via AP )

UN food chief: funding and access can avert starvation

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN food agency chief: World on brink of `a hunger pandemic’

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Residents lined up to receive boxes of food at Living Water Baptist Church in Longs, S.C., Monday, April 20, 2020 Local organizations stepped in help after Horry County Schools postponed their lunch program this week after school workers tested positive for the coronavirus. The distribution of 500 boxes of food was organized by The United Way of Horry County and IMPACT Ministries with the support of U.S. Foods and A & A Produce with more food to be distributed throughout the area in the weeks to come. (Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP)

Number of people facing food insecurity could double in wake of coronavirus: World Food Programme

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009, file photo, village women receive aid from the charity organization, Oxfam International, at a distribution center in Chirumhanzi about 250 Kilometers Southeast of Harare. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

UN says Zimbabwe’s cash shortage hurts aid delivery efforts

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FILE - In this March 21, 2019 file photo, David Beasley, executive director of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Cairo, Egypt. In the wake of an internal survey that detailed multiple allegations of rape and sexual harassment of its female staffers, Beasley vowed to go after abusers. Beasley said over the past year he has been increasing the number of investigators at the agency to 22 to look into allegations of misconduct, including a number who specialize in dealing with victims of sexual violence. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

WFP chief vows more ‘aggressive’ action on sexual harassment

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2018, file photo, a man feeds children halas, a climbing vine of green leaves, in Aslam, Hajjah, Yemen. The U.N. food agency has begun a partial suspension of food aid to areas of Yemen controlled by the rebels amid accusations they were diverting aid from the war-torn country's hungriest people, the group said Thursday, June 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

UN aid official: Yemeni rebels blocking food for thousands

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

South Korean Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul speaks during a press conference at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 19, 2019. South Korea says it plans to send 50,000 tons of rice to North Korea through the World Food Program in its second aid package announced over the past month as it looks to help with the North's food shortages and improve bilateral relations. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korea to send 50,000 tons of rice to North Korea

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this May 17, 2019, photo, North Korean farmers plant rice seedlings in a field at the Sambong Cooperative Farm, South Pyongan Province, North Korea. North Korean state media said last week that 54.4 millimeters (2.1 inches) of rain fell in the first five months of 2019, which it said represented the lowest level since 1982. U.N. food agencies said earlier this month that about 10 million people were facing &quot;severe food shortages&quot; after one of the North's worst harvests in a decade. (AP Photos/APTN)

South Korea vows to send aid to North quickly, may send food

Associated Press

Yemeni groups call on WFP to reveal aid ‘corruption’

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

A truck carries aid on a road in Aden, Yemen, in this July 23, 2018, photo. Relief workers in Yemen said armed factions often manipulate lists of those registered to receive food aid to divert it to their own supporters and families. “Who gets on the beneficiaries’ lists? Those who have weapons,” said one local humanitarian official in the southern city of Taiz. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

UN threatens to slash Yemen food aid over theft by rebels

Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015, file photo, a worker looks at a chocolate factory destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen. Envoys from Yemen’s warring parties are headed to Sweden for another round of peace talks to stop the three-year-old war, but with few incentives to compromise, expectations are low for little more than improving a faltering de-escalation.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

The Latest: UN official says Houthis blocking access to food

Associated Press

Umm Mizrah, a 25-year-old Yemeni woman, holds her son Mizrah on a scale in Al-Sadaqa Hospital in the southern Yemen city of Aden in this Feb. 13, 2018 photo. Rageh, who is nearly into the second trimester of her pregnancy, weighed 38 kilograms (84 pounds), severely underweight. Mizrah, who was 17 months old, weighed 5.8 kilograms (12.8 pounds), around half the normal weight for his age. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

One meal a day: Yemeni mothers try to feed their families

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press