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WFP AIRDROPS FOOD AID INTO DR CONGO’S EMBATTLED KATANGA PROVINCE LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo – The United Nations World Food Programme said today it had started dropping food aid from an aircraft into violence-wracked Katanga province in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo – marking the agency’s first food aid airdrops outside Sudan since 1998.
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.
3.5 MILLION KENYANS HIT BY DROUGHT IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE REPORT FINDS NAIROBI – The Government of Kenya and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced that 3.5 million Kenyans are running out of food because of the complete failure of the short rains, nearly tripling the number Kenyans in need of emergency food assistance.