The UN World Food Program (WFP) is scaling up operations to provide emergency food assistance to 500,000 people in Venezuela affected by a recent powerful earthquake. The organization is appealing for $50 million to cover the next three months, noting that food prices were already a major concern before the disaster.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced the Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act to allow SNAP benefits to cover rotisserie chicken purchases. The legislation, sponsored by Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA), Jim Justice (R-WV), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Michael Bennet (D-CO), would expand food assistance to include hot prepared foods currently excluded from the program serving nearly 42 million Americans.
DHAKA: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh expressed concern on Wednesday as the cash-strapped UN World Food Programme (WFP) prepares to cut aid for large portions of the 1.2 million-strong group. Bangladesh’s vast refugee camps shelter Rohingya who fled persecution in neighboring war-torn Myanmar, with more than 150,000 new arrivals since 2024, according to the WFP. The agency is the sole provider of monthly food assistance for the community. But with global funding stretched thin and more people needing aid, resources are already under pressure.
