WFP STARTS FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS TO SURVIVORS OF FLOODS IN EASTERN EHIOPIA DIRE DAWA, Ethiopia - The United Nations World Food Programme today began emergency food distributions that will reach 10,000 men, women and children hit by flash floods in the Dire Dawa region of eastern Ethiopia.
WFP’S DAUNTING TASK: FEEDING 1.7 MILLION REFUGEES IN 2006 GENEVA – As the media and the humanitarian community focus on the spreading drought in the Horn of Africa, the United Nations World Food Programme is deeply concerned that more attention is needed to highlight the persistent problems faced by the world’s refugees – most of them in Africa.