FIRST WFP FOOD AID SHIP ARRIVES IN SOMALI PORT OF MOGADISHU IN MORE THAN A DECADE MOGADISHU - A ship chartered by the United Nations World Food Programme docked yesterday in Mogadishu - the agency’s first delivery in the capital’s port in more than a decade.
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.
FOOD AID PROGRAMME LAUNCHED TO SUPPORT MINDANAO PEACE PROCESS MANILA - The United Nations World Food Programme this week launched an aid operation to support a critical peace initiative in war-ravaged Mindanao in southern Philippines. The US$27 million (1.35 billion pesos) operation will help more than two million people living in five of the region’s poorest provinces.
WFP WARNS OF DETERIORATING HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN GAZA JERUSALEM – Ahead of an international donor conference this week on the reconstruction of Lebanon in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that the situation in Lebanon must not be allowed to overshadow the rapidly deteriorating living conditions of the people in Gaza.
