World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

The World Food Program (WFP) has announced that it has been able to provide food to more than 26,500 people fleeing fighting in Sudan's Southern Kordofan state, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said here Thursday.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today said it is assisting thousands of people fleeing from fighting Sudan’s Southern Kordofan state, but the conflict continues to hinder the agency’s efforts to reach more people uprooted by the violence.

The UN refugee agency pleaded Tuesday for access to Sudan's volatile oil-producing border state of South Kordofan, where some premises of UN aid agencies had been looted. (..) The World Food Programme also said its premises had been looted and the agency lost two vehicles and one motorcycle. But its warehouse in Kadugli was "reportedly being guarded by local authorities and is reportedly undamaged," said Emilia Casella, spokeswoman for the UN food agency.

The U.N. refugee agency urged Sudanese authorities on Tuesday to allow road and air access for aid workers trying to help thousands of people fleeing fighting in the border state of Southern Kordofan. (..) Further underlining the deteriorating situation, the World Food Programme and the World Health Organisation said premises belonging to the two U.N. agencies in the area had been looted.

An air bombing campaign in Sudan's Southern Kordofan border state is causing "huge suffering" to civilians and endangering aid work in the region, the United Nations said on Tuesday. (..) The World Food Programme said in a report that up to 60,000 people may have fled the fighting so far.

Adok sits under a tree near a World Food Programme distribution site, surrounded by tens of thousands of her former neighbors. She says she lost two of her children in the panic as she fled from attacks by Sudanese armed forces.

The situation in the Sudanese state of Southern Kordofan remained tense today after several days of fighting between the Sudanese army and the forces of the southern region (..). The UN World Food Programme (WFP), meanwhile, said that it has provided food aid to an estimated 86,300 people displaced by the recent military confrontation in the disputed area of Abyei.

Southern Sudan wants to control its oil supply after becoming the world's newest nation in only a month's time, but already an apparent dispute with the north has sent fuel prices skyrocketing here and prompted fist fights at gas stations. (..) Residents, local media reports and even the head of the U.N. World Food Program in Southern Sudan said the Sudanese government began enforcing a blockade of the main north-south oil routes in early May.

Warrap state in southern Sudan is becoming the focus of efforts to assist thousands of people fleeing the disputed central-southern region of Abyei after it was attacked on 21 May by the northern Sudanese army, aid workers say. (..) "This operation is facing logistical challenges. In the weeks to come, with the advance of the rainy season, the challenges will become greater," said Margherita Coco, who was responsible for the World Food Programme (WFP) sub-office in Abyei until the attack forced WFP to abandon its work there.

Three Bulgarian helicopter pilots kidnapped in Sudan's troubled Darfur region while working under a UN contract returned home after 145 days in captivity. (..) The World Food Programme which manages the UN Humanitarian Air Service employing the three, said no ransom was paid for their release on Monday.