The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), through its award-winning ShareTheMeal app, has partnered with Careem, a leading multi-service app in the Middle East, to launch a donation campaign across Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
Key drivers of food insecurity in Yemen include worsening economic challenges, substantial reductions in humanitarian assistance gaps caused by funding shortages, limited livelihood activities, localized conflict, and the delayed and insufficient rainfall.
Today’s violent incident comes despite assurances from Israeli authorities that humanitarian operational conditions would improve; including that armed forces will not be present nor engage at any stage along humanitarian convoy routes.
Women’s Hardship during the Conflict The 2024 conflict in Lebanon disproportionately impacted women and girls, with over 1.5 million people affected and 900,000 displaced, 69 percent of whom were women and children.
Amid heightened regional tensions in June, the risk of conflict spillover into Lebanon remained high. Despite Israel’s partial withdrawal, it still occupies five border positions, and ceasefire violations persist
Following a week-long pause on truck movements due to security and access concerns, WFP resumed truck movements into Gaza on 25 June. WFP aims to deliver 2,000 mt daily across both northern and southern Gaza.
UNOCHA reports that over 9.3 million children are expected to suffer from high levels of acute malnutrition between June 2024 and May 2025 in Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.
In May 2025, WFP reached the highest number of people since the conflict began, assisting an estimated 5.1 million people across all modalities. This included reaching 1.7 million people in famine and risk of famine (RoF) areas in Sudan.
The report shows that one in five people in Lebanon – around 1.17 million individuals – are facing crisis or emergency levels of acute food insecurity between April and June 2025.
