Photo: WFP/Alexis Masciarelli. students aged 5 to 7 eat a hot meal in their classroom in the primary school Baptiste Salem in ...

School meals are a crucial way out of poverty into "a new world of learning and opportunity," according to the World Food Programme (WFP) executive director Cindy McCain.

DAKAR/JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI: Twenty million more children in Sub-Saharan Africa are now receiving school meals through government-led programmes than in 2022, according to the latest edition of the ...