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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 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...