World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

European Union’s top foreign affairs representative Catherine Ashton, has praised the EU Naval Task force (EUNAFOR), which has been battling piracy off the coast of Somalia.(..) Rear Admiral Duncan Potts, the Operations Commander, received the visiting delegation and led a series of briefings, which focussed on the continually evolving EU operation and highlighted the 100 per cent success of escorting World Food Programme ships with food-aid for Somalia.

(..) Others came across Muslim organizations distributing dates. When they arrived in Dobley, a town between the Kenyan and Somali border near Liboi, they received boxes of biscuits from the UN World Food Programme, which helped them on the last leg of the 20km journey to Liboi.

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah launched the national fundraising campaign for famine-hit Somalis by donating SR20 million. (..) The UN World Food Program, meanwhile, said it received a generous Saudi donation of $50 million to help save Somali children and said the amount would be used to feed more than half a million children suffering from malnutrition in the East African country.

Saudi Arabia has donated 50 million dollars to help save children in famine-hit Somalia, the World Food Programme said in a statement received by AFP on Monday. (..) The contribution in response to a WFP appeal for funds "will help us save the lives of thousands of children before they fall into severe stages of malnutrition, at which point it would become impossible to keep them alive," said WFP executive director Josette Sheeran.

The drought in the Horn of Africa is the most urgent humanitarian emergency in the world today. (..) To address the immediate needs of the drought and famine victims, the United States is working with a number of international partners, such as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, the World Food Program, and NGOs to provide essential services such as food, healthcare, primary education, and other services.

Can't wrap your head around the Horn of Africa food crisis? Tens of thousands of people have already died in Somalia and an estimated 13 million people have been affected. Somali refugees are entering Ethiopia and Kenya by the thousands. According to UNICEF, the famine is spreading. This map by the World Food Programme and Development Seed gives a jarring perspective of the crisis.

The number of people who need food in Somalia is 3.7 million, but more than 2 million of them are inaccessible because of security problems in their region, according to the U.N.'s World Food Program.

The famine in five regions of southern Somalia could spread to the entire area if relief supplies do not reach the starving population on time. (..) Regarding theft of food aid, the World Food Programme has strongly condemned any actions that would take even the smallest amount of food from starving and vulnerable Somalis, and will rigorously investigate any allegations of theft of humanitarian food, he said.

China has donated 16 million U.S. dollars to the World Food Program (WFP) to support its famine-relief operations in Somalia, said a WFP press release on Sunday. It is China's largest single donation to WFP, adding the country's donation to WFP this year to 20 million U.S. dollars, according to the release.

The family of Muse Iyow were some of the last to leave their village in southern Somalia where months of drought led to severe famine that wiped out all they had forever. (..) China is the latest country to send in humanitarian assistance with a donation of 16 million U.S. dollars to the World Food Program (WFP) to support its famine-relief operations in Somalia.