BLEAKEST MALNUTRITION SITUATION IN SOMALIA IN YEARS - WFP & UNICEF NAIROBI - Recent outbreaks of fighting and the worst drought in a decade have pushed many people in Somalia to their limit, creating the bleakest malnutrition situation in years, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today.
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.