3.5 MILLION AFGHANS FACE CRITICAL SHORTAGES OF FOOD AID KABUL – The United Nations World Food Programme today called on donors to provide urgently needed funds to its Afghanistan operation to ensure food assistance to 3.5 million hungry Afghans, warning that there will be a break in food supplies this month without fresh donations.
MORE MISERY IN KENYA: WFP FORCED TO CUT FOOD RATIONS TO REFUGEES NAIROBI – As a result of insufficient funding, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has been forced to reduce food aid rations to some 230,000 Somali and Sudanese refugees living in two camps in remote areas in northeast Kenya.