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.
YOKOHAMA – On the last day of a four-day visit to Japan, WFP Deputy Executive Director Sheila Sisulu participated in the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2007 Public Forum and delivered a keynote speech on the theme for this year’s IWD: “Ending Impunity for Violence against Women and Girls.” Sisulu spoke to the audience which filled the U Thant Hall at the UN House in Tokyo, and explained h
WFP LAUDS GROWING LINKS WITH 10 NEW EU MEMBER STATES NITRA -- Concluding a two-day meeting in this historic Slovakian city, the World Food Programme welcomed its burgeoning partnership with the 10 new member states of the European Union, marked in the past year by expanding cooperation and sharp increases in financial contributions.
WFP WARNS OF KENYA DROUGHT DISASTER; FOOD AID RUNS OUT IN WEEKS NAIROBI - The United Nations World Food Programme gave a stark warning today of a humanitarian disaster in Kenya because of drought, saying that WFP would run out of food aid within weeks for 2.5 million people in the drought-stricken north and east unless new donations were received immediately.