WFP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR VISITS SUDAN AMID FUNDING CRISIS TO FEED 6 MILLION KHARTOUM - The UN World Food Programme Executive Director, James Morris, arrives in Khartoum today to visit the agency’s largest emergency operation, which was hit recently by a severe shortage of funds to feed some 6.1 million people across Sudan.
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).
5 October 2006 EUROPEAN COMMISSION DONATION HELPS SUSTAIN WFP OPERATIONS IN DARFUR KHARTOUM – The United Nations World Food Programme mission in Darfur has received a welcome boost with two significant donations from the European Commission: €26 million for WFP’s emergency relief operations and €2 million for the Humanitarian Air Service (WFPHAS), which transports both WFP and