YOKOHAMA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed an announcement by the Government of Japan to donate US$4.2 million (JPY490 million) to projects assisting a total of 10 million people in Afghanistan and the Philippines (Mindanao) . “WFP is deeply grateful for Japan’s continuing support.
AS FIGHTING INTENSIFIES IN CHAD, WFP EVACUATES ALL BUT KEY UN STAFF N’DJAMENA – In its capacity as the United Nations’ lead logistics agency, the World Food Programme has begun relocating all non-essential UN and NGO staff and their families from N’djamena and Abeche after security conditions deteriorated sharply in Chad this week.
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
BUJUMBURA, The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that the lethal combination of poor rains, crop disease and extreme poverty has left 2.2 million Burundians in need of food aid in 2006.