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BLEAKEST MALNUTRITION SITUATION IN SOMALIA IN YEARS - WFP & UNICEF NAIROBI - Recent outbreaks of fighting and the worst drought in a decade have pushed many people in Somalia to their limit, creating the bleakest malnutrition situation in years, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today.
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.
HIV/AIDS AGGRAVATES CHRONIC HUNGER DESPITE BETTER HARVESTS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA JOHANNESBURG – The United Nations World Food Programme warned today that despite better harvests across southern Africa, more than three million people would remain short of food because of chronic vulnerability caused by grinding poverty and the world’s highest rates of HIV/AIDS.