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.
WFP WARNS OF DETERIORATING HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN GAZA JERUSALEM – Ahead of an international donor conference this week on the reconstruction of Lebanon in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that the situation in Lebanon must not be allowed to overshadow the rapidly deteriorating living conditions of the people in Gaza.
FOOD AID PROGRAMME LAUNCHED TO SUPPORT MINDANAO PEACE PROCESS MANILA - The United Nations World Food Programme this week launched an aid operation to support a critical peace initiative in war-ravaged Mindanao in southern Philippines. The US$27 million (1.35 billion pesos) operation will help more than two million people living in five of the region’s poorest provinces.
INVOLVING MEN IN CREATING A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD FOR WOMEN ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme has chosen the theme of “Partnering with Men to Achieve Gender Equality” for this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD)*, to stress the importance of the two sexes working together to improve women’s lives around the world.
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY MEETS HUNGRY CHILDREN IN SOUTHERN SUDAN ON DAY OF FASTING MALAKAL, Sudan – On the traditional day of fasting for millions of Christians around the world, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr.