The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that it will close its Johannesburg office, which oversees operations in southern Africa, and merge its southern and eastern operations into a single regional hub in Nairobi,

WFP is closing its Southern Africa bureau due to US aid cuts, impacting food assistance amid a severe regional drought.

At least four people have sustained gunshot wounds after police clashed with protesters in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp, in the country's north

The United Nations' World Food Programme is closing its southern Africa office due to funding cuts from the Trump administration. To optimize operations, it will consolidate the offices into a regional hub in Nairobi.

AT LEAST four people sustained gunshot wounds as police clashed with protesters in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp, in the country’s north.

The number of food-insecure people in Kenya stands at 2.15 million, up from one million in July 2024, according to the East African country's National Drought Management Authority (NDMA).

An escalating humanitarian crisis is looming at Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp as severe food and water shortages threaten the survival of over 800,000 refugees.

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) is closing its southern Africa office in the wake of the Trump administration’s aid cuts. In a statement, a spokesperson said the office in Johannesburg would close and the WFP would consolidate its southern and east Africa operations into one regional office in Nairobi, Kenya.

The decision comes amid widespread drought throughout the region, as well as an increasingly fraught war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.