Greece's migration ministry has rejected claims from NGOs that refugees and migrants residing in camps across the country have been deprived of food. This comes after UNHCR handed over the cash assistance program to Greek authorities.
The Covid-19 pandemic has further aggravated the global problem of poverty and malnutrition, Italian Premier Mario Draghi has said. The number of people without food security has increased by at least 130 million, bringing the total number to 800 million.
The UN World Food Programme chief is calling for supply trucks to be allowed to deliver food to thousands of refugees in Tigray, saying current rations will run out on Friday.
Over 1 million refugees in Uganda will face reduced food rations as a lack of international funding forces the UN World Food Programme to cut its relief program.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an alarm on the situation of Eastern African refugees. The UN body says millions of people face serious famine and malnutrition due to the socioeconomic consequences of the coronavirus.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a seasonal support project for one million people including internally displaced persons, refugees, returnees, and vulnerable families experiencing food insecurity in Mali.
According to an investigation by the magazine Balkan Insight, increasing numbers of migrants in Albania are being left hungry and frightened in state-run facilities. They are reduced to begging on the streets to get by.
The Italian migrant aid organization Linea d'Ombra has called for immediate assistance for migrants and the homeless amid the Covid-19 emergency. Between 50 and 100 people gathered in a square in the city of Trieste every day without "shelter, food, or water," the NGO warned.
Anas Mustafa spends one day a week volunteering at his local foodbank in the city of Nordhorn in Germany. He wants to help those who can't afford to buy groceries at the supermarket - because Germany helped him when he fled the war in his home country Syria.
At FoodCycle, groups of volunteers cook donated food, which would otherwise have been thrown away, for communities in need around the UK. One of their projects in London is run at the Happy Baby Community for migrant and refugee women and their children. One of the volunteer project leaders is Pepe Clavijo, a Venezuelan migrant who wants to give something back to the community.
InfoMigrants has received shocking photographs depicting emaciated bodies along with chilling testimonies suggesting that several migrants have starved to death in Libya’s Zintan detention center in recent weeks. NGOs have repeatedly sounded the alarm over severe malnutrition in Libyan camps.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has published a report on the lack of food and alarming malnutrition in migrant detention centers in Libya, where children suffer especially badly. MSF calls upon Libyan authorities to, among other things, release all children under 18 and ensure their wellbeing.