World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

UN agencies are providing humanitarian assistance to the people in Misrata, Libya's third- largest city, and other parts of the Noth African country, UN spokesman Farhan Haq said here Tuesday.(..)After managing to open a humanitarian corridor into western Libya, a WFP convoy of eight trucks with enough food for 50,000 people for 30 days arrived in western Libya on Monday, he said.

Britain announced Tuesday that it will dispatch experienced military advisers to aid Libyan rebels in organizing their forces, as NATO and its allies struggled to break the stalemate in Libya without directly joining the fight on the ground.(..)Tuesday the U.N. World Food Program said it had started sending food into government-controlled western Libya for the first time since violence erupted in the country. A convoy of eight trucks loaded with 240 metric tons of wheat flour and 9.1 metric tons of high-energy biscuits — enough to feed nearly 50,000 people for 30 days — crossed into western Libya on Monday from the Tunisian border town of Ras Jdir.

A rebel official in Libya's besieged city of Misrata pleaded for Britain and France to send troops to help fight Moamer Kadhafi's forces, while a son of the strongman said he was "very optimistic" his father's regime will prevail.(..)The UN World Food Programme said it had opened up a lifeline from Tunisia to western Libya, with a convoy bringing wheat flour and high-energy biscuits enough to feed nearly 50,000 people for 30 days.

Germany increased its humanitarian aid for Libya Tuesday by 2 million euros (2.9 million dollars), with the extra money earmarked to help evacuate refugees from Misurata and feed the town's people.(..)The money will be sent to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), enabling them to evacuate 2,000 people from Misurata to Benghazi, which is in rebel hands.

The Libyan government has promised aid workers access to areas under its control, according to the UN.(..)The UN food agency said on Tuesday it had started moving food supplies for civilians through a new humanitarian corridor into western Libya. A convoy of trucks loaded with 240 tonnes of wheat flour and high-energy biscuits crossed from Tunisia on Monday, the World Food Programme said.

The U.N. food agency says Libya has indicated it will respect a new agreement to allow humanitarian aid to be delivered in the west of the country. World Food Program spokeswoman Emilia Casella says the agency signed an agreement with the Libyan Red Crescent to establish a humanitarian corridor and "we received an indication that the government did not have any objection."

The United Nations food agency said on Tuesday it had started moving food supplies through a new humanitarian corridor into western Libya for civilians in cities including Tripoli.(..)"We managed to open a new humanitarian corridor into western Libya," WFP spokeswoman Emilia Casella told a news briefing.

The UN's World Food Programme said Tuesday that it has opened up a new humanitarian corridor in western Libya, allowing it to send in enough food to feed about 50,000 people for a month. "We've managed to open up an humanitarian corridor into Western Libya," Emilia Casella, the UN food agency's spokeswoman told journalists in Geneva.

Libya faces a humanitarian crisis due to heavy fighting and food supplies are not being adequately replenished, U.N. agency the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said earlier up to 3.6 million people in Libya may need humanitarian assistance as rebels press their fight against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Libya said on Wednesday it had reserves in gold and other assets that would help its people cope with sanctions, but it also called for funds it holds abroad to be "unfrozen immediately" for humanitarian needs.(..)The World Food Programme said Libya was facing a humanitarian crisis and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the group's meeting in Doha that up to 3.6 million people, or more than half the population, could need assistance.