A 2011 file photo of Somali people living in a camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Mogadishu, Africa, queueing up to receive cooked meals from a Somali NGO that partners with the WFP. — AFP
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), which won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, delivers food assistance in emergencies, from wars to civil conflicts, natural disasters and famines.
Here are five facts about the Rome-based organisation.
Created in 1962 on the request of US President Dwight Eisenhower as an experiment to provide food aid through the UN system, WFP had only existed a few months when an earthquake struck northern Iran.
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