WFP DIRECTOR WARNS FUNDS RUNNING OUT FOR DISPLACED IN AZERBAIJAN BAKU - The United Nations World Food Programme Executive Director, James Morris, today stressed the need to draw attention to the devastating problems faced by the world’s displaced people, including those in Azerbaijan and now in Lebanon.
WFP’S DAUNTING TASK: FEEDING 1.7 MILLION REFUGEES IN 2006 GENEVA – As the media and the humanitarian community focus on the spreading drought in the Horn of Africa, the United Nations World Food Programme is deeply concerned that more attention is needed to highlight the persistent problems faced by the world’s refugees – most of them in Africa.
WFP APPEALS FOR SAFE PASSAGE FOR FOOD AID AMID NEPAL’S CRISIS Kathmandu – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has appealed to all parties to allow safe passage for food convoys in Nepal. Despite ongoing violence, WFP reiterated its commitment to continuing to provide urgently needed food aid to hundreds of thousands of Nepalese.
SUDAN BOOSTS SELF-HELP WITH SCHOOL MEAL SUPPORT KHARTOUM – The United Nations World Food Programme today praised decisions by governors of three Sudan States to renew and expand their support to WFP school meals by committing precious resources to monitoring, transport and other support. WFP urged international donors to follow suit.
