WFP URGES AFRICAN SUMMIT TO ACT ON HUNGER CRISES: "PUT FOOD FIRST" Khartoum - As Africa's leaders gather today for their AU summit, the United Nations World Food Programme is calling on the continent's leaders and international donors to boost their support for its efforts to tackle hunger and poverty in Africa before millions more lives are lost.
WFP WARNS OF BREAK IN FOOD SUPPLIES TO AFGHANISTAN IN MARCH KABUL – The United Nations World Food Programme today called on donors urgently to provide funds to its Afghanistan operation, which is facing critical shortages in supplying food to 3.5 million vulnerable Afghans. A break in food supplies looms in March if donations are not forthcoming.
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY MEETS HUNGRY CHILDREN IN SOUTHERN SUDAN ON DAY OF FASTING MALAKAL, Sudan – On the traditional day of fasting for millions of Christians around the world, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr.
WFP HAILS EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR EUROS 5 MILLION FOR KENYA DROUGHT NAIROBI – The United Nations World Food Programme today hailed the European Commission for donating Euros 5.05 million (US$5.98 million) in cash to help provide food aid for 3.5 million people in northern and eastern Kenya, saying this was the sort of quick, flexible response needed as the drought worsens.
BEIRUT - Lebanon will soon be food secure again and its commercial sector is bouncing back quicker than expected, paving the way for the withdrawal of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) from the country by the end of October, according to a WFP food assessment and nutrition report issued today.
WFP SAYS ONSET OF LONG RAINS IN KENYA TOO LATE FOR MILLIONS IN NEED OF FOOD NAIROBI – The United Nations World Food Programme warned today that despite a good start to the long rains falling in the epicentre of the regional drought, millions of nomadic herders and subsistence farmers in Kenya remained in desperate need of sustained assistance until they can rebuild their lives.
WFP LAUDS GROWING LINKS WITH 10 NEW EU MEMBER STATES NITRA -- Concluding a two-day meeting in this historic Slovakian city, the World Food Programme welcomed its burgeoning partnership with the 10 new member states of the European Union, marked in the past year by expanding cooperation and sharp increases in financial contributions.