The United Nations World Food Program says urgent action is needed to prevent what it calls a "serious tragedy" because of food shortages in North Korea. A bad harvest and soaring world food prices may be creating one of the leanest years in the North since a period of mass starvation in the mid-1990's.

United Nations aid agencies report sharply deteriorating security in Kenya is threatening their ability to provide humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people. The World Food Program says it is neither able to distribute food within Kenya nor to hundreds of thousands of refugees in neighboring countries. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva.

The World Food Program has begun delivering relief supplies by air to communities affected by widespread flooding in Mozambique. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our southern Africa bureau in Johannesburg, Mozambique has been worst hit by early heavy rains in the region.

The United Nations says it has stopped distributing food in the Somali capital Mogadishu after its compound was stormed by government troops, who arrested the local head of the World Food Program.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that its aid programmes for hungry people in Somalia could be jeopardized without fresh contributions allowing the flow of relief to continue.

The World Food Program (WFP) says it has been able to successfully feed up to three million internally displaced people in Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur. The organization says it has been able to do this even though problems of security remain and it still has no access to certain areas.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) today announced the launch of an operation to airlift emergency food supplies to over 2,600 Sudanese refugees who recently crossed into the the Central African Republic (CAR).

Sheryl Crow, a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter from the United States, is throwing her support behind the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) after watching its Ambassador, actress Drew Barrymore, discuss child hunger, the agency said today.

The World Food Program says it is taking advantage of the current lull in fighting in Somalia to step up its food assistance to thousands of displaced people. It has begun a second round of food distributions to 122,500 people.

The World Food Program (WFP) says it will be able to restore food rations it was forced to cut for more than a million displaced people in northern Uganda. As Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva, the WFP says it is able to restore the rations because of new contributions from the international community.

American actress Drew Barrymore was named a World Food Program ambassador against hunger, the United Nations agency announced Wednesday. Barrymore just returned from a trip to Kenya, where she toured WFP-supported school meal projects, the agency said in a statement.