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Current Hunger Emergencies
Syria
Humanitarian needs are on the rise across Syria with serious bread and fuel shortages across the country and large number of people displaced as the fighting continues.
WFP is working to assist up to 6.5 million Syrians, including 4 million people inside Syria and almost 2.5 million refugees in neighbouring countries. WFP is assisting refugees in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Turkey, using food vouchers, conventional food distributions and nutritious snacks for refugees in school.
The operation is WFP’s largest and most complex emergency worldwide. Amid concerns about the influx of new refugees into Iraq, WFP is mobilizing stocks in the region and has airlifted food and other relief items into Erbil.
Mali
Conflict in the West African nation of Mali has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes, taking refuge in safer parts of the country or in neighbouring countries. The situation is also placing pressure on the communities who are providing hospitality to the influx of families fleeing conflict. They themselves are still recovering from the Sahel drought of 2012.
In 2013, WFP aims to bring food assistance to around 530,000 people. They include more than 400,000 people affected by the crisis in the north ( Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal) and more than 130,000 internally displaced people and host families in the southern regions of Mali.
WFP also has operations to assist refugees in the neighbouring countries of Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mauritania. Learn more
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