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MASSIVE AID EFFORT CONTAINS GROWTH OF MALNUTRITION IN DARFUR KHARTOUM – Despite the deteriorating security situation in Darfur, a new United Nations assessment has found that overall malnutrition levels have mostly stabilized in 2006 and food insecurity has improved slightly thanks to a stronger international response to the suffering in Sudan’s war-torn west.

SUDAN AGAIN FACES FOOD RATION CUTS: WILL DARFUR BE PUT BACK ON A DIET? KHARTOUM - The United Nations World Food Programme today urged the international community to help end the misery in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, where almost half a million people are now cut off from emergency food aid because of fighting and attacks.

WFP ASSISTS SAHRAWI REFUGEES HIT BY TORRENTIAL RAINS Algiers - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will begin assisting 60,000 Sahrawi refugees living in the desert area near Tindouf who saw their homes and belongings washed away by three-days of rare torrential rains. “These people were already facing hardship. Now many are homeless and in urgent need of emergency assistance.

ADDING INSULT TO INJURY? SHARP RATION CUTS LEAVE DARFUR ON A DIET KHARTOUM – Despite the horrific suffering of millions of vulnerable people across Sudan, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today that a severe shortage of funds has forced it to make drastic cuts in food rations from May.

PHNOM PENH - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) thanked Japanese football star Hidetoshi Nakata for donating soccer balls to Banteay Srei Primary School in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Nakata visited the school last week with WFP, which provides hot meals to 830 students there.

CHILD HUNGER SPIKES IN MAURITANIA AS WFP RUNS OUT OF FOOD Nouakchott - The United Nations World Food Programme today urged the international community to reach into its pockets and fund its vital food aid operation so that the desert nation of Mauritania can pull through the most difficult months of the year.

EMERGENCY LOANS PUT NEEDY OF SOUTHERN AFRICA IN JEOPARDY JOHANNESBURG – With more than nine million people in southern Africa receiving food aid from the United Nations World Food Programme this month, the organisation revealed today that many people are being fed only because the agency took substantial financial loans to ensure that they did not starve during the critical lean season, fro

WFP News Release 3 November 2006 WFP GIVES URGENT HELP TO VICTIMS OF NEW FLOODS IN SOUTHEAST ETHIOPIA ADDIS ABABA - With extensive flooding again hitting southeastern Ethiopia, the United Nations World Food Programme said today it is working closely with the Government of Ethiopia to ensure that food aid urgently reaches tens of thousands of flood-affected people in the Somali region.

現在、この悲惨な紛争は6年目に入ろうとしています。血は流れ続け、人々の苦しみは増しています。そこで今日、人道支援を行う組織および国連機関の長たちは、各国政府のみならず、世界の市民の皆様に呼びかけることに致しました。この殺りくを終わらせるよう、皆様も声を上げて下さい。すべての紛争当事者に対し、停戦に合意し、和平へ向けた道を歩むことを、共に要請して頂きたいのです。今まで以上に、世界は、皆様が団結して暴力の終結を求める声を必要としています。なぜならば、この紛争とその結果は、我々すべてに影響を与えるからです。それは、愛する人や生活の糧を失い、家を追われ、包囲下の町で絶望的な状況に置かれたシリアの人々に影響を与えています。今日、シリア国内には、人道支援を必要とする人々が1350万人います。これはただの数字ではありません。命や未来が危機に瀕している、一人ひとりの人間が、1350万人いるのです。

WORLD’S FIRST HUMANITARIAN INSURANCE POLICY ISSUED ADDIS ABABA – The United Nations World Food Programme announced today that AXA RE has been awarded the world’s first insurance contract for humanitarian emergencies. The contract provides US $7 million in contingency funding in a pilot scheme to provide coverage in the case of an extreme drought during Ethiopia’s 2006 agricultural season.