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.
FIGHTING CUTS OFF 355,000 PEOPLE FROM FOOD AID KHARTOUM - Hundreds of thousands of people in Darfur have gone hungry for three consecutive months because fighting and banditry have prevented the World Food Programme (WFP) from reaching them, announced Kenro Oshidari, WFP’s Representative in Sudan.
HIV/AIDS AGGRAVATES CHRONIC HUNGER DESPITE BETTER HARVESTS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA JOHANNESBURG – The United Nations World Food Programme warned today that despite better harvests across southern Africa, more than three million people would remain short of food because of chronic vulnerability caused by grinding poverty and the world’s highest rates of HIV/AIDS.
JAPAN HELPS WFP FEED THOUSANDS OF POOR AFGHANS KABUL – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed another major food shipment of 3,900 tonnes of rice from the Government of Japan as part of a larger pledge that includes other food commodities destined to help thousands of Afghans.