HIGH ENERGY BISCUITS AIRLIFTED TO KENYA TO FEED 200,000 FLOOD VICTIMS NAIROBI – A Boeing 747 jumbo jet chartered by the United Nations World Food Programme landed today in Nairobi, delivering 94 metric tons of high energy biscuits from a depot in Brindisi, Italy, for hundreds of thousands of victims of Kenya’s largest floods in years.
WFP FOOD DISTRIBUTED IN BEIRUT’S BATTERED SOUTHERN SUBURBS BEIRUT - Municipal workers today distributed food rations from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to vulnerable families in Beirut’s southern suburbs where thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed in 33 days of conflict between Israel and Hizbollah.
WFP HELPS 10,000 SURVIVORS OF DEVASTATING FLOODS IN EASTERN ETHIOPIA DIRE DAWA – Following devastating floods in eastern Ethiopia, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is undertaking a rapid assessment and registration of survivors to determine the immediate food needs of an estimated 10,000 people left homeless by flash floods.