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WFP NEEDS STEADY DONOR FUNDING TO BOLSTER LIVES AND PEACE IN SUDAN KHARTOUM – UN World Food Programme Executive Director James Morris warned today that a shortage of steady and timely funding for food aid to Sudan risked increasing malnutrition among millions of people and threatened pacts to end conflicts in the South and western region of Darfur.
WFP STARTS FOOD AIRLIFT TO CHILDREN IN EASTERN DRC, AMID FEARS OF FUNDING CRISIS KINSHASA - The United Nations World Food Programme said today that it has recently started airlifting urgent food aid to at least 8,800 needy people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, although it has not yet received any funding pledges for next year’s operations.
WFP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR VISITS SUDAN AMID FUNDING CRISIS TO FEED 6 MILLION KHARTOUM - The UN World Food Programme Executive Director, James Morris, arrives in Khartoum today to visit the agency’s largest emergency operation, which was hit recently by a severe shortage of funds to feed some 6.1 million people across Sudan.
BUJUMBURA, The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that the lethal combination of poor rains, crop disease and extreme poverty has left 2.2 million Burundians in need of food aid in 2006.
EMERGENCY LOANS PUT NEEDY OF SOUTHERN AFRICA IN JEOPARDY JOHANNESBURG – With more than nine million people in southern Africa receiving food aid from the United Nations World Food Programme this month, the organisation revealed today that many people are being fed only because the agency took substantial financial loans to ensure that they did not starve during the critical lean season, fro
WFP DESPERATELY NEEDS FUNDS TO SUSTAIN PAKISTAN HELICOPTER LIFELINE CAIRO - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today that US$24 million is urgently needed to maintain its helicopter ‘lifeline’ operation in Pakistan -- the largest relief helicopter operation in the UN’s history -- until the end of August to assist thousands of victims of last year’s earthquake.
3.5 MILLION KENYANS HIT BY DROUGHT IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE REPORT FINDS NAIROBI – The Government of Kenya and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced that 3.5 million Kenyans are running out of food because of the complete failure of the short rains, nearly tripling the number Kenyans in need of emergency food assistance.