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WFP 国連世界食糧計画はこの週末にかけて、ソマリアとケニアでの洪水により道路を遮断され、病気の蔓延に苦しんでいる１００万人以上の人々に向け、空輸での食糧援助を開始し、同時に陸路と水路からの援助活動も拡大した。WFPは今後数週間で、1,000トンの食糧やその他の物資を空輸することを目指している。これらの物資は国連機関やNGOによってソマリアのシャベレ川、ジュバ川沿いの洪水地帯の村に届けられる。11月以降、計6,200トンのWFPの食糧物資が水路、陸路、空路でソマリア中央部と南部の被災者30万人に配給された。ケニアでは今回の洪水により、北部・北東部の６ヶ所の地域で、およそ56万3千人のケニア人が直接的な被害に遭っていると推定される。同地域のさらに52万人は、以前より干ばつに苦しんでいたところに重ねて洪水の被害を受けたため、引き続き食糧援助を必要としている。

WFP LAUNCHES MAJOR AIR OPERATION FOR FLOOD VICTIMS IN SOMALIA, KENYA NAIROBI – The United Nations World Food Programme today launched a regional air operation to provide fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters to transport aid workers and humanitarian assistance to more than a million people in Somalia and Kenya hit by the worst floods in years.

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FIRST WFP FOOD AID SHIP ARRIVES IN SOMALI PORT OF MOGADISHU IN MORE THAN A DECADE MOGADISHU - A ship chartered by the United Nations World Food Programme docked yesterday in Mogadishu - the agency’s first delivery in the capital’s port in more than a decade.

WFP FACES MAJOR SETBACKS & DEVELOPMENTS IN ITS ABILITY TO DELIVER URGENT AID TO LEBANON ， Overnight bombing of the highway north from Beirut to the Syrian border has cut the road in at least three places and reportedly destroyed critical bridges. This could effectively sever the vital humanitarian lifeline between Lebanon and the outside world.

LIBYA MAKES FIRST DONATION TO WFP -- FOR MILLIONS AT RISK IN DARFUR, CHAD KHARTOUM – The United Nations World Food Programme today welcomed its first ever contribution from the Government of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

WFP URGES SOMALI LEADERS, MILITIAS TO PROTECT AID AGENCIES AFTER SHOOTING NAIROBI – Following a fatal shooting at a food distribution in southern Somalia, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) appealed today to leaders and militias throughout Somalia to provide access and protection to humanitarian agencies to enable them to respond to a worsening drought emergency.

WFP STARTS FOOD AIRLIFT TO CHILDREN IN EASTERN DRC, AMID FEARS OF FUNDING CRISIS KINSHASA - The United Nations World Food Programme said today that it has recently started airlifting urgent food aid to at least 8,800 needy people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, although it has not yet received any funding pledges for next year’s operations.