ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY MEETS HUNGRY CHILDREN IN SOUTHERN SUDAN ON DAY OF FASTING MALAKAL, Sudan – On the traditional day of fasting for millions of Christians around the world, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr.
WFP AIRDROPS FOOD AID INTO DR CONGO’S EMBATTLED KATANGA PROVINCE LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo – The United Nations World Food Programme said today it had started dropping food aid from an aircraft into violence-wracked Katanga province in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo – marking the agency’s first food aid airdrops outside Sudan since 1998.
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
アンマン ― 120台の旧型自動車がドイツのオバースタフェンから14ヶ国を巡り、本日ヨルダンの首都アンマンに到着した。このラリーは「飢餓と立ち向かうドライブ」ラリーと銘打たれ、世界中の飢餓及び貧困との戦いについて啓蒙することを目的に行われた。 5月26日に始まったこのラリーは、バスマ・ビント・タラル皇太子殿下の下、WFPと協力した貧困撲滅と食糧安全保障向上のためのヨルダン国家同盟(Jordanian National Alliance for Combating Hunger and Enhancing Food Security)によって開かれた。
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.