EGYPTIAN FOOTBALLER ABOUTRIKA PLAYS AGAINST HUNGER CAIRO - Egyptian soccer player, Mohamed Aboutrika is to use his celebrity status to help the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in its fight against child hunger, the agency announced today. The 28-year-old Egyptian striker is a famous footballer in the Middle East, and plays for Egypt’s giant club Al-Ahly.
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.
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.