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Help Arrives For Victims Of Violence in South Sudan
Sami Yusuf Dedicates Music Video To Hungry Children
  • Story 5 days 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 2 days ago

    Philippines: Rebuilding Lives After Typhoon Washi

    Philippines: Rebuilding Lives After Typhoon Washi

    In the aftermath of Typhoon Washi, which struck the Philippines island of Mindanao in December, WFP is helping families rebuild their lives. Programmes range from providing flood-hit children meals at school to "food for work" schemes aimed at clearing away the wreckage.
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  • @WFP 2 days ago

    #Somalia famine ends but situation still dire, says #FAO. http://t.co/wLYzw19V via @FAONews

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  • Story 3 days 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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  • News Release 4 days ago

    WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran Welcomes Sentencing Action For Murder Of WFP Staff Member In Kenya

    All of us at the World Food Programme welcome the decision by the Nakuru High Court in Kenya this week to sentence five men to 56 years in prison each for the 2008 murder of our WFP colleague Silence Chirara.
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  • Video 5 days ago

    Aid Arrives For Survivors Of Violence In South Sudan

    Aid Arrives For Survivors Of Violence In South Sudan

    A spate of violence in South Sudan's Jonglei State has driven thousands of people from their homes and into the bush, where they survived on what they could find. WFP has reachd 80,000 people in the region with emergency food rations and is working with partners on the ground to help victims of the violence rebuild their lives
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  • News Release 5 days ago

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

    JUBA    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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  • Video 5 days 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 2 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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  • Hunger in the News 1 week 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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  • Video 7 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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  • @WFP 6 days ago

    Famine: the predictable result of a broken system. A must-read by @UN rapporteur on right to food. http://t.co/px5u0Tlj

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  • WFP Photo Gallery 1 week ago

    What They Said At Davos

    What They Said At Davos
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  • WFP Photos 1 week ago

    A Warm Welcome For Archbishop Desmond Tutu

    A Warm Welcome For Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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  • Hunger in the News 1 week ago

    Niger struggles to feed itself at the best of times – these are the worst of times

    Source: The Guardian Humanitarian organisations estimate that 1.3 million people are suffering from acute malnutrition across the Sahel, a belt of countries from Mauritania and Senegal on the Atlantic to Chad in central Africa, taking in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. (..) The question is whether Niger and other Sahel countries will receive enough help for such measures at a time of financial crisis in the west. (..) In the region of Oullam, about an hour and a half's drive from the capital, Niamey, the World Food Programme's food-for-work scheme means families receive grain, vegetables and oil for three months in return for work designed to build up the community's ability to sustain itself.
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  • Hunger in the News 1 week 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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  • WFP Photos 1 week ago

    Severe Drought In Burkina Faso

    Severe Drought In Burkina Faso
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  • Hunger in the News 1 week 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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  • News Release 2 weeks ago

    WFP And Logistics Companies Join Forces To Prepare Countries For Disaster Response

    DAKAR    Humanitarian organizations and the world’s leading logistics companies have teamed up to conduct the first in a series of assessments to help countries strengthen their ability to respond to emergencies.
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  • WFP Photo Gallery 2 weeks ago

    Guatemala: after the storm, a family recovers

    Guatemala: after the storm, a family recovers
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