WFP STARTS EMERGENCY FOOD DELIVERIES TO WESTERN NEPAL KATHMANDU - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has started transporting emergency food assistance to help communities in western Nepal hit by drought in an operation that is eventually expected to reach 225,000 people.
RISING TIDE OF SOMALI REFUGEES STRAINS FOOD STOCKS IN KENYA'S CAMPS NAIROBI - Somali refugees escaping the conflict between the Union of Islamic Courts and the Transitional Federal Government have pushed the number of refugees in Kenya to the highest level in a decade, threatening to exhaust food aid stocks unless urgent donations are made, the United Nations World Food Programme said today.