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A server ladles soup into a container as children line up to receive food at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Hunger soars and aid dwindles as gangs in Haiti suffocate the country

Associated Press

Sudanese refugees gather outside a field hospital in Acre, Chad, Aug. 15, 2023. The United Nations food agency has warned that it might end food assistance to 1.4 million refugees in Chad who fled the conflict in parts of the Sahel because of limited funding. The World Food Program says most of the refugees escaped the war in Sudan and crossed into Chad in the last six months in numbers not seen in the last 20 years. (AP Photo, File )

U.N. warns food aid for 1.4 million refugees in Chad could end over limited funding

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Palestinian worshippers pray outside Jerusalem's Old City while Israeli forces stand guard, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Israeli police limited access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque inside the Old City only to older men, women and children, trying to limit the potential for demonstrations against Israel's war against Hamas militants. Tens of thousands of worshippers attend on a typical Friday. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Egypt’s border crossing opens to let a trickle of desperately needed aid into besieged Gaza

Associated Press

Women queue to receive cash at a money distribution site organized by the World Food Program in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 20, 2021. The U.N. food agency said Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, that it must drop another 2 million hungry people from food assistance in Afghanistan this month due to a massive funding shortfall. The action means that 10 million people will be cut off from the agency's support this year in the country, the World Food Program said in a statement. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

U.N. food agency drops aid to another 2 million hungry people in Afghanistan due to cash shortfall

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Women queue to receive cash at a money distribution site organized by the World Food Program in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 20, 2021. The U.N. food agency said Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, that it must drop another 2 million hungry people from food assistance in Afghanistan this month due to a massive funding shortfall. The action means that 10 million people will be cut off from the agency's support this year in the country, the World Food Program said in a statement. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

U.N. food agency drops aid to another 2 million hungry people in Afghanistan due to cash shortfall

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Program (WFP), speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. A halted landmark wartime grain deal that allowed grain Ukrainian grain to flow and donor fatigue is rattling the operations' of the United Nations food agency. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Halted Ukraine grain deal, funding shortages rattle U.N. food aid programs

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

A farmer collects harvest in a field 10 kilometers from the front line, around a crater left by a Russian rocket in the foreground, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, July 4, 2022. Agreements that the U.N. and Turkey brokered with Ukraine and Russia to allow food and fertilizer to get from the warring nations to parts of the world where millions are going hungry have eased concerns over global food security. But they face increasing risks. Moscow has ramped up its rhetoric, saying it may not extend the deal that expires Monday, July 17, 2023, unless its demands are met. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Why allowing Ukraine to ship grain during Russia’s war matters to the world

By Courtney Bonnell - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador Cindy McCain, wife of former Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, smiles as she arrives for the public ceremonial inauguration of Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs at the state Capitol in Phoenix, Jan. 5, 2023. On Thursday, March 2, 2023, McCain was appointed head of the U.N. World Food Program, the world’s largest humanitarian organization which aims to help nearly 150 million people confronting conflicts, disasters and impacts of climate change this year. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

U.S. ambassador Cindy McCain to head U.N. World Food Program

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

World Food Program chief David Beasley meets with villagers in the village of Wagalla in northern Kenya Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. The United States is stepping up to buy about 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine in the next few weeks for an upcoming shipment of food aid from ports no longer blockaded by war, the World Food Program chief has told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

UN: U.S. buying big Ukraine grain shipment for hungry regions

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Two Afghan children sit next to a spigot as people of Kamar Kalagh village outside Herat, Afghanistan, try to fill their plastic containers with water, on Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. Afghanistan’s drought, its worst in decades, is now entering its second year, exacerbated by climate change. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Afghans need our help. Will the Biden administration step up?

By Olivia Enos

A nurse inoculates a woman with a dose of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine at the Perez Carreno public hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

US weighs policy on Venezuela as Maduro signals flexibility

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

UN warns over 27 million Congolese suffer from acute hunger

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Nov. 23, 2019, file photo, a woman holds her malnourished boy at a feeding center at the Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. After a visit to Yemen the World Food Program's executive director, David Beasley, warned that his underfunded organization may be forced to seek hundreds of millions of dollars in private donations in a desperate bid to stave off widespread famine in the coming months. Beasley told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday, March 10, 2021, that conditions in war-wrecked Yemen are “hell.” (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

‘This is hell’: U.N. food aid chief visits Yemen, fears famine

By Maggie Hyde - Associated Press

A supporter leans on a wooden cross which reads &quot;The truth will win&quot; as he protests against the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange outside Belmarsh Magistrates Court in London, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. The U.S. government and Assange will face off Monday over extradition, a decade after WikiLeaks infuriated American officials by publishing a trove of classified government documents. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

WFP: Security protocols, leaks a focus of Congo probe

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - 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. Beasley says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars “we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Nobel UN food agency warns 2021 will be worse than 2020

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN food chief: Yemen faces `looming famine,’ needs millions

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Nobel winner urges billionaires to save millions from famine

By EDITH M. LEDERER - 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 seeks million from donors, billionaires for food

By EDITH M. LEDERER - 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

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