How a record-breaking El Niño could deepen global hunger - UN World Food Programme

U. S. President Donald Trump criticized President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with Newsmax published on Oct. 15, describing the Ukrainian president as "not a good guy for (the U. S.) to deal with. ""Zelensky's not a good guy for us to deal with," Trump said, claiming that the Ukrainian president does not want to help bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war. "He says he wants to settle, but he doesn't. I'm not a big fan of Zelensky. They've destroyed that country," the U. S. president said, criticizing the Obama and Biden administrations for their handling of the war, including the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. Trump's comments came in response to a question on whether Trump asked Zelensky to halt Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries. Earlier in the day on Oct. 15, Zelensky lifted restrictions on Ukraine's strikes against Russian oil refineries after Russia continued to strike Ukraine's energy infrastructure over the past days. The latest comments from Trump come amid deepening tensions between the two leaders. The Ukraine-U. S.

As the international community marks World Porridge Day on 10 October, the story of a young Malawian woman whose life was transformed by a daily school meal offers a reflection on the importance of school feeding programmes in the fight against hunger. Through the documentary Lettie, Mary's Meals revisits a story first told more than a decade ago, tracing one woman's journey from childhood hunger to hope. When Mary's Meals first met Leticia, known to many as Lettie, she was 11 years old. Recently orphaned and hungry, she had been forced to leave school and care for her two younger brothers. Her story was first shared in Child 31, the award-winning 2012 documentary that introduced audiences around the world to the reality of child hunger in Malawi. Now, more than a decade later, Mary's Meals has returned to Lettie's story.

A man displaced from his home sits in a tent at Al-Firdous Camp in Aden governorate, Yemen, where WFP is providing emergency food assistance. Photo: WFP/Mahmoud Mohammed Hunger is accelerating rapidly across Yemen as conflict intensifies, pushing more people deeper into crisis and threatening consequences far beyond the country’s borders, the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. For families across Yemen, the deterioration is immediate, as conflict forces people from their homes, disrupts livelihoods and makes it harder to reach communities with assistance.