Highlights on food security: In domestic currency, food inflation in the region is likely to remain elevated as a result of the continuing pressures on MENA economies’ currencies. In Egypt, year-on-year food...
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The Mid-Year Update of the Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2023 estimated that 238 million people are facing high levels of acute food insecurity in 48...
Between March and June 2023, approximately 250,000 people (21 percent of the population analysed, out of a total of more than 1.18 million people) will experience acute...
From January to December 2023, 33,000 children under the age of five are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition, including more than 5,500 severe cases. More than 2,900...
Most countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are struggling to reduce poverty and vulnerability—COVID-19 and now Russia's invasion of Ukraine are making the task even...
This fourth edition of the WFP Eastern Africa Regional Achievements reflects WFP's capacities in numerous domains, among them emergency preparedness and response, food system, gender...
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When faced with rising prices in commodity markets, in particular oil and food, countries in MENA put in place policies aimed at containing domestic inflation. Despite...
Hunger and food insecurity have continued to increase in the Arab region due to various factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
Part 1 of this report will present the...
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Inflation Hurts the Poor and Vulnerable
Food price inflation reached double digits for most of the middle-income and low-income MENA economies in 2022. For most MENA economies...