SUDAN AGAIN FACES FOOD RATION CUTS: WILL DARFUR BE PUT BACK ON A DIET? KHARTOUM - The United Nations World Food Programme today urged the international community to help end the misery in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, where almost half a million people are now cut off from emergency food aid because of fighting and attacks.
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.
INVOLVING MEN IN CREATING A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD FOR WOMEN ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme has chosen the theme of “Partnering with Men to Achieve Gender Equality” for this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD)*, to stress the importance of the two sexes working together to improve women’s lives around the world.
NEW NUTRITION MAP OF INDONESIA HIGHLIGHTS WIDESPREAD INFANT MORTALITY, UNDERWEIGHT CHILDREN JAKARTA-Many people in Indonesia do not get enough to eat, significant numbers of the country’s children are underweight and infant mortality continues to be a problem right across the island nation’s archipelago.