World Food Program Wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

Medical supplies are seen on the tarmac before being loaded to an aircraft chartered by the U.N. World Food Programme to help developing countries hit by the COVID-19 outbreak, at Liege airport, Belgium, April 30, 2020. Francois Lenoir/Reuters

OSLO—The World Food Program (WFP) on Friday won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the globe.

The announcement was made in Oslo by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Nobel Committee.