WFP EMERGENCY FOOD AID REACHES WEST JAVA EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI VICTIMS JAKARTA - Working in close cooperation with Indonesian authorities, the United Nations World Food Programme has rapidly responded to the immediate needs of persons affected by the 17 July earthquake and tsunami in West Java.
WFP News Release 26 October 2006 SHORTAGE OF DONATIONS IMPACT SAHRAWI REFUGEES IN ALGERIA ALGIERS – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)) is facing increasing difficulties in providing food assistance to Sahrawi refugees living in remote camps near Tindouf in southwest Algeria – a concern also shared by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
AS BITTER COLD GRIPS ARMENIA, WFP FORCED TO CUT FOOD AID TO HUNGRY POOR YEREVAN – As bitterly cold weather keeps its grip on the Caucasus region, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that due to a lack of funding, it has run out of most food commodities for the 110,000 people it assists in Armenia.
WFP DIRECTOR WARNS FUNDS RUNNING OUT FOR DISPLACED IN AZERBAIJAN BAKU - The United Nations World Food Programme Executive Director, James Morris, today stressed the need to draw attention to the devastating problems faced by the world’s displaced people, including those in Azerbaijan and now in Lebanon.
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、アフガンの冬を目前に食糧援助を急ぐ カブール発：冬の到来を目前に、WFPはアフガニスタンでの食糧の配給に追われている。アフガニスタンでは、これからの季節にかけて大雪や凍結により多くの村が孤立するため、食糧の配給が極めて困難になるからだ。特に山岳地方では、道路が舗装されていないうえ、降雪や凍結により危険性が増大し、すでに閉鎖された道路もある。WFPは、道路が遮断され多くの村が孤立する前に、2万1,000トンの食糧を60万人に届ける予定だ。 またアフガニスタンでは今年、多くの地域が洪水の被害を受けた。WFPは、2万4,000人の洪水被害者への支援も行っている。 AFGHANISTAN: WFP IN RACE BEFORE WINTER SNOWS AND FLOODING KABUL ?
