World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

Le 16 octobre 2012, le PAM-Burundi s’est joint au reste du monde pour célébrer la Journée Mondiale dédiée à l’alimentation. A cette occasion, il a sorti un communiqué de presse dans lequel il réaffirme son engagement à continuer à apporter un appui aux personnes les plus vulnérables à l’insécurité alimentaire, à des fins aussi bien humanitaires que de développement.

The World Food Programme has urged the international community to provide US$6 million so that WFP food assistance to as many as 90,000 Burundian refugees returning home from Tanzania – due to run out mid-year – can be maintained.

FAO has called for a renewed commitment to guarantee the right to food for the world's hundreds of millions of hungry people.

Read UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon message to mark World Food Day, which this year promotes the Right to Food.

Two United Nations agencies today appealed to donors to support an increased food assistance package to help many of the 149,000 Burundian refugees in camps in Tanzania to return home. WFP and the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned that without funding, the initiative may collapse.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) on Friday welcomed US government contributions in June totaling $62 million to feed people confronting humanitarian crises across 13 countries in Africa and one in Asia.

WFP and non-governmental organisations warned today that two million people hit by recent floods in Burundi need urgent assistance until June to avert a food crisis.

The heads of three of the United Nations largest humanitarian agencies are embarking on their first joint mission to visit their common operations.

The heads of three of the largest UN humanitarian agencies urge the international community to match political progress in the Great Lakes region with a new commitment to end the suffering of the millions of people forgotten by the rest of the world.