UK DONATION FOR ROADS MAY OPEN NEW ERA OF DRIVING ACROSS SUDAN KHARTOUM – The World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a donation of US$8.7 million from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development earmarked for the United Nations food agency’s giant road works project in southern Sudan.
TRIAGE AGAIN IN AFRICA AS WFP FORCED TO CUT RATIONS FOR MILLIONS ACROSS SUDAN KHARTOUM – The UN World Food Programme said today that a critically slow response to appeals for its emergency operation in Sudan have forced it to cut rations of pulses, sugar and salt for up to 3.5 million people immediately, to help limited stocks last longer.
WFP NEEDS STEADY DONOR FUNDING TO BOLSTER LIVES AND PEACE IN SUDAN KHARTOUM – UN World Food Programme Executive Director James Morris warned today that a shortage of steady and timely funding for food aid to Sudan risked increasing malnutrition among millions of people and threatened pacts to end conflicts in the South and western region of Darfur.
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
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.
CHAD: RISING TENSIONS RENDER FOOD OUTLOOK PRECARIOUS N’DJAMENA – Amid rising tensions and reported preparations for armed attacks in Chad, the United Nations World Food Programme warned today – election day – that food is becoming a serious issue for some 70,000 people who have either fled the continuous armed incursions in the east of the country or are resident there.