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NEW WFP OPERATION ASSISTS DISPLACED PEOPLE IN AZERBAIJAN BAKU - The United Nations World Food Programme’s Executive Director, James Morris, today approved a two-year operation in Azerbaijan, which will provide 26,833 metric tons of food assistance to 143,500 people displaced by the conflict with Armenia over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

UN LEADERS URGE NEW EFFORT TO END SUFFERING OF MILLIONS IN AFRICA’S GREAT LAKES REGION BUJUMBURA – The heads of three of the largest United Nations humanitarian agencies today urged the international community to match political progress in the Great Lakes region with a new commitment to end the suffering of the millions of people forgotten by the rest of the world.

CANCELLED CONVOYS HAMPER AID FOR STRANDED IN SOUTHERN LEBANON BEIRUT - The United Nations World Food Programme today warned that it had suffered another setback in its huge efforts to bring much-needed aid to the beleaguered inhabitants of southern Lebanon.

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.

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.

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.

SAUDI ARABIA DONATES US$5 MILLION TO INDONESIA GOVERNMENT, UN AGENCIES TO SUPPORT EARTHQUAKE RELIEF JAKARTA - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will donate US$5 million to support the earthquake relief and recovery efforts of two levels of the Indonesian government and several humanitarian and United Nations agencies, including a USUS$2 million grant to help fund the UN World Food Programme’s cash-stra

WFP DIRECTOR WARNS FUNDS RUNNING OUT FOR DISPLACED IN AZERBAIJAN BAKU - The United Nations World Food Programme Executive Director, James Morris, today stressed the need to draw attention to the devastating problems faced by the world’s displaced people, including those in Azerbaijan and now in Lebanon.

THOUSANDS OF LEBANESE HEADING HOME FROM SYRIA GET WFP FOOD PARCELS DAMASCUS - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today that to facilitate the mass return of Lebanese who had taken refuge in Syria, it has been providing bread and biscuits to the thousands of people heading over the border back into Lebanon.

WFP TO PROVIDE FOOD AID TO SUPPORT PEACE PROCESS IN THE PHILIPPINES Manila, Philippines – The United Nations World Food Programme announced today that it will provide food aid to Mindanao in the Philippines in support of the government’s effort to end the long-standing conflict on the island.