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Posted Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00:51 +0000 - www.wfp.org
The Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila is perilously wedged along one of Lebanon's many sectarian fault lines. (..) Although Shatila was founded as a Palestinian refugee camp, many non-Palestinians now live there as well.
Posted Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00:51 +0000 - www.wfp.org
The Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila is perilously wedged along one of Lebanon's many sectarian fault lines. (..) Although Shatila was founded as a Palestinian refugee camp, many non-Palestinians now live there as well.
Posted Thu, 16 May 2013 14:37:33 +0000 - www.wfp.org
Ertharin Cousin, of the World Food Programme expressed her concern as the money pledged so far is only a quarter of what the nation is looking for. “The challenge is that there are 300,000 people who are still internally displaced from the north living in the south of Mali, there another in the...
Posted Thu, 16 May 2013 14:37:33 +0000 - www.wfp.org
Ertharin Cousin, of the World Food Programme expressed her concern as the money pledged so far is only a quarter of what the nation is looking for. “The challenge is that there are 300,000 people who are still internally displaced from the north living in the south of Mali, there another in the...
Posted Wed, 15 May 2013 14:34:34 +0000 - www.wfp.org
Elisabeth Byrs, spokesperson for the UN World Food Programme (WFP), said that the mission monitored the distribution of an inter-agency food convoy that left on 8 May, consisting of nine trucks of food, hygiene items and water supplies sufficient for 25,000 people. (..) It was a region that...
Posted Tue, 14 May 2013 12:29:59 +0000 - www.wfp.org
As the conflict in Syria drags on, more and more people are becoming displaced and the United Nations is having increasing difficulty in providing all of them with the aid they need to get by. (..) "We are being hindered in some areas of the country simply because we can't move around easily. (..)...
Posted Tue, 14 May 2013 12:27:41 +0000 - www.wfp.org
Sidama Elto is one of 16 cooperative unions in Ethiopia that have signed forward contracts with the WFP for the purchase of more than 28,000 metric tons of maize grown by their smallholder farmer members. The maize, which is part of 112,000 tons of food the WFP purchased in Ethiopia last year, will...
Posted Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:16:21 +0000 - www.wfp.org
Aid workers in Syria are struggling to navigate a lawless archipelago of armed groups to get food to Syrians trapped in a fast-intensifying civil war, the head of the World Food Programme's Syria operation says. (..) Matthew Hollingworth said in an interview last week that WFP is trying to feed 2.5...
Posted Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:01:50 +0000 - www.wfp.org
Egypt imports roughly 10 million tonnes of wheat a year.(..) But this year, officials have cut imports of key commodities like wheat, betting that a big local harvest will make up the difference. If farmers cannot make money growing wheat, many of them might switch to more lucrative crops in the...
Posted Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:12:49 +0000 - www.wfp.org
We are partnering with the International Organization for Migration, the World Food Program (WFP), the International Lifeline Fund and now we are grateful to the support of the Clinton Foundation that is enabling us to scale up and diversify our operation. (..) The WFP estimates that each school in...