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  • WFP Photo Gallery 2 days ago

    WFP Responds In Flood-Hit Mozambique

    WFP Responds In Flood-Hit Mozambique
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  • Video 2 days ago

    Boats Deliver Food In Flooded Mozambique

    Boats Deliver Food In Flooded Mozambique

    Violent storms in the southern Africa country of Mozambique have flooded thousands of acres of farmland and left villages across the country stranded by the floodwaters. WFP is working to provide some 70,000 people with emergency food assistance. Where victims have been cut off by road, WFP is using boats to reach the hungry with food.
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  • Story 3 days ago

    Music Artist 50 Cent 'Inspired' By Trip To Horn Of Africa

    After visiting a refugee camp in Somalia and a slum in the Kenyan capital, Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson has reaffirmed his determination to help WFP fight hunger in the region. The music artist has already committed to provide a billion meals for the hungry.
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  • Youtube Video 4 days ago

    WFP Cambodia chief talks us through a food distribution

    WFP Cambodia chief talks us through a food distribution

    WFP is helping poor and vulnerable households cope with the aftermath of the worst floods to hit Cambodia in a decade. The programme is providing monthly food rations which include rice, vegetable oil, canned fish and high energy biscuits. The initial 3-month programme will reach 21400 families. Within the next 12 months, the Relief and Recovery operation will help over 100000 flood-affected people, providing them with food as they work on community projects that will protect their assets and support the recovery process.
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  • Food Factor Podcast 5 days ago

    Are Food Markets Drying Up In The Sahel?

    Food prices are on the rise from Chad to Burkina Faso as drought in the Sahel region of Africa takes its toll on local food markets. In the latest episode of the Food Factor Podcast, WFP Market Analyst Jean-Martin Bauer tells us how the situation is evolving and what makes it different from previous crises in the Sahel.
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  • WFP Photo Gallery 3 weeks ago

    WFP Fact Finders On Mission In Pakistan

    WFP Fact Finders On Mission In Pakistan
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  • Youtube Video 3 weeks ago

    WFP Programme Officer Sahib HAQ on assessment in Pakistan.

    WFP Programme Officer Sahib HAQ on assessment in Pakistan.

    WFP Programme Officer Sahib HAQ
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  • Story 1 week ago

    10 Reasons You Made Hunger Your Cause

    Last month, we asked our supporters on Facebook and Twitter to tell us why they had made hunger their cause. We've received some fantastic videos in response. Here are a 10 of our favourites.
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  • Video 1 week ago

    Hungry Planet: Episode 11

    Hungry Planet: Episode 11

    In the latest episode of Hungry Planet, we travel to the world's newest country; meet a man who was drawn back to his native Mali by a government jobs scheme; and learn how fruit farming is changing lives in Ethiopia.
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  • Story 3 weeks ago

    Molly’s World: A Girl Films Her Life In A Nairobi Slum

    What’s it like to grow up in the slums of Nairobi? In Spring 2011, WFP gave a small video camera to a 12-year-old girl named Molly and asked her to record scenes from her daily life. Over the next few weeks, we'll be sharing more of her videos which offer a window into one of the poorest places on earth. Welcome to Molly's World.
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  • News Release 1 week ago

    WFP Responds To Growing Needs Among Tens Of Thousands Affected By Conflict In South Sudan

    The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has scaled up food assistance to reach 80,000 people affected by the recent escalation of inter-communal violence in Jonglei State, in the eastern part of South Sudan.
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  • Story 1 week ago

    WFP To Feed 70,000 People In Flood-Hit Mozambique

    WFP is working to provide emergency food aid to more than 70,000 people affected by cyclones and severe flooding in Mozambique. Distributions started on Thursday in the central Zambezia province.
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  • Youtube Video 1 week ago

    Footage of flooding in Mozambique

    Footage of flooding in Mozambique

    WFP's Lola Castro and other staffers show us some of the ways recent flooding has affected people in the Maputo province of Mozambique, one of the provinces where WFP is working with the government to assess damage and bring food aid.
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  • Hunger in the News 2 weeks ago

    Sahel Food Crisis: School Meals Needed in Chad as Hunger Deepens

    Source: Blogcritics The African nation of Chad is in the middle of a hunger crisis as drought has struck, ruining the country's food supply. (..)The World Food Programme (WFP) is providing school feeding in Chad as part of its response to the crisis. (..) “If the current level of funding doesn't improve, WFP will not be able to carry out school meals in the coming months,” said Malek Triki, WFP information officer.
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  • Hunger in the News 2 weeks ago

    Drought returns to West Africa’s Sahel, bringing hunger as crisis looms

    Source: The Washington Post / AP

    For the third time in the past decade, drought has returned to the arid, western shoulder of Africa, bringing hunger to millions. (..) “The increasing frequency of droughts in the Sahel means that communities have had little time to recover from the last food crisis,” according to Malek Triki, the Dakar-based spokesman for the U.N. World Food Program. “Their savings are exhausted and livestock herds have not been rebuilt.”
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  • Video 8 weeks ago

    WFP's Denise Brown on women in Niger

    WFP's Denise Brown on women in Niger

    Denise Brown, WFP's country director in Niger, talks about the amazing resilience of women in the West African nation where she is now stationed.  Despite their hardiness, even these women are feeling the strain amid the current drought and unseasonably high food prices, she says.
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  • Hunger in the News 2 weeks ago

    Hunger crisis in Chad just weeks away, warns aid agency

    Source: Alertnet Aid groups have warned that hunger threatens between 5 and 9 million people in countries in Africa's Sahel region just below the Sahara including Chad, Niger, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Mali. (..) Even in an average year 450,000 children in Chad need treatment for acute malnutrition, but the number will increase dramatically this year.
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