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29 June 2007
Generous US Donations to sustain millions of hungry in Africa and Asia

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.


20 February 2007
WFP helps Mozambique flood victims, as a second tropical storm brings heavy rain to Central provinces

WFP has said that it would like to buy locally as much food as possible for 120,000 people already affected by flooding in central Mozambique but stressed that cash donations were crucial.


15 February 2007
WFP starts helicopter rescue and food deliveries to victims of Mozambique floods

WFP has said a WFP-chartered helicopter had started rescue and food delivery missions in central Mozambique where the worst flooding in years has forced an estimated 85,000 people to flee their homes.


15 December 2006
Special Envoy urges a redoubling of efforts to help Mozambique's children

James T Morris, the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Humanitarian Needs in Southern Africa urges the humanitarian sector in Mozambique to redouble its efforts to ensure the basic needs of orphans and vulnerable children are met.


13 December 2006
Southern Africa's future hinges on coping with HIV/AIDS and addressing plight of orphans

The future of southern Africa is dependent upon governments in the region halting the effects of HIV/AIDS and ensuring orphans receive good nutrition, education and care, said James T. Morris, the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Humanitarian Needs in Southern Africa.


30 November 2006
Namibian children pay the price of WFP funding crisis

WFP has announced that unless it receives new contributions urgently it will be forced to halt food distributions to 90,000 orphans and vulnerable children in Namibia by the second half of December because of a critical shortage of funding.


28 June 2006
HIV/AIDS aggravates chronic hunger despite better harvests in Southern Africa

WFP has warned that despite better harvests across southern Africa, more than three million people will remain short of food because of chronic vulnerability caused by grinding poverty and the world’s highest rates of HIV/AIDS.


2 February 2006
Long-term problems persist for southern Africa

9 December 2005
Mozambican children to ‘spin’ into healthier life thanks to WFP, TNT and UNICEF

Some 40,000 school children in Mozambique will soon be ‘spinning’ into a healthier future with clean drinking water and sanitation facilities thanks to a new initiative unveiled today by WFP, the Dutch logistics company TNT, and UNICEF.


23 November 2005
Thanksgiving lifeline for southern Africa's hungriest

As the “hungry season” between harvests in southern Africa moves into its harshest phase, WFP welcomes the latest generous American donation of food for the region’s most vulnerable people.

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