JAPAN DONATES SHS3.6 BILLION WORTH OF RICE TO UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME The Japanese government has donated Ug.Shs3.6 billion worth of rice to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to assist people at risk in Uganda, including 1.5 million displaced persons sheltered in congested camps north of the country.
WFP EMERGENCY RESERVES PERILOUSLY LOW -- DONORS URGED TO HELP ROME – Facing the enormous challenge of feeding more than 50 million people in Africa this year – in life-threatening crises such as the Horn of Africa – the United Nations World Food Programme revealed today that many people are only receiving food aid because the agency has drawn down substantially from its emergenc