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  • Hunger in the News 1 day ago

    Mali receives pledge of 520 million euros from EU

    Source: Euronews Ertharin Cousin, of the World Food Programme expressed her concern as the money pledged so far is only a quarter of what the nation is looking for. “The challenge is that there are 300,000 people who are still internally displaced from the north living in the south of Mali, there another in the 175000 living in the surrounding countries and today we are also feeding another 700,000 who are entire need of food assistance.”
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  • WFP Photo Gallery 2 days ago

    A Schoolgirl’s World In Zaatari Refugee Camp

    A Schoolgirl’s World In Zaatari Refugee Camp
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  • Video 2 days ago

    Families Fleeing DR Congo's "Triangle Of Death" Receive Assistance From WFP

    Families Fleeing DR Congo's "Triangle Of Death" Receive Assistance From WFP

    WFP is assisting families fleeing the so-called "Triangle of Death" along the Democratic Republic of Congo's border with Tanzania. Armed groups have driven some 200,000 people from their homes, many of whom have come to the town Pweto in search of assistance.
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  • Youtube Video 1 day ago

    WFP Myanmar: Getting Ready For Cyclone Mahasen

    WFP Myanmar: Getting Ready For Cyclone Mahasen

    WFP in Myanmar, in anticipation of the impact of Cyclone Mahasen, has distributed food rations to displaced people in and around Sittwe, Rakhine State which ...
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  • Story 2 days ago

    WFP Ready To Assist As Cyclone Mahasen Hits Bangladesh And Myanmar

    Amid roaring winds and dark clouds on the horizon as Cyclone Mahasen rolls in, WFP staff in Bangladesh and Myanmar stand ready to respond where necessary.
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  • Hunger in the News 4 days ago

    Lesson From A Famine: Markets Matter

    Source: Huffington Post Sidama Elto is one of 16 cooperative unions in Ethiopia that have signed forward contracts with the WFP for the purchase of more than 28,000 metric tons of maize grown by their smallholder farmer members. The maize, which is part of 112,000 tons of food the WFP purchased in Ethiopia last year, will be used for WFP relief distributions in the country. Ten years ago, many of those farmers and their families were receiving food aid from the WFP. One of the major lessons in agricultural development over the past decade is this: Markets Matter.
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  • @WFP 4 days ago

    Syria crisis: the #EU responds to spiralling needs with more emergency humanitarian aid http://t.co/hSVWQt8Cn4 @eu_echo

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  • WFP Photo Gallery 3 days ago

    Brazil and Spain Support Guatemalan Families In The “Dry Corridor”

    Brazil and Spain Support Guatemalan Families In The “Dry Corridor”
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  • Story 3 days ago

    8 Things To Know About Hunger In Mali

    A year of conflict in the West African nation of Mali has brought hunger to hundreds of thousands of people. Drought and endemic poverty have also taken their toll. Here are 8 things to know about hunger in Mali and what WFP is doing to deliver food and hope to the people who live there.
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  • @wfp_media 4 days ago

    Aid commissioner @KGeorgievaEU says "#Syria is already at a breaking point". This is what @WFP has been doing to help http://t.co/0T4oDZAiEN

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  • Story 4 days ago

    Life As A 10-Year-Old Refugee From Syria

    Toqa’s collection of woolly hats is one of the the only things she took with her when her family fled their home in Syria. It's among few reminders of the home she left behind before coming to Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Determined to become a doctor, she's at the top of her class at school where WFP provides nutritious snacks to children like her.
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  • Story 1 week ago

    From Deadly Floodplain To Picnic Area In Northern Afghanistan

    In a sweeping valley of Khulm district near Mazar-e-Sharif, spring flooding was an annual problem for local communities until a joint WFP and FAO watershed management project made the area safe and turned the rainwater into an asset.
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  • Video 4 days ago

    Emergency Food For Families In Central African Republic

    Emergency Food For Families In Central African Republic

    Tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes by a recent outbreak of fighting in the Central African Republic. WFP is providing emergency rations to those affected by the violence, particularly new mothers, small children and people with the HIV virus.
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  • WFP Photos 5 days ago

    European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva Visits Zaatari Refugee Camp

    European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva Visits Zaatari Refugee Camp
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  • WFP Photos 5 days ago

    Food Distribution To Syrian Families In Tartous

    Food Distribution To Syrian Families In Tartous
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  • Story 1 week ago

    How A Mother From Syria Kept Her Family Fed

    For Syrian mothers like Um Abdou, life as a refugee has been a battle to keep her family from going hungry. She didn't hesitate to sell all her jewelry for food, but it wasn't long before she had no more to sell. Today, food vouchers provided by WFP are putting food on the table for her and around 300,000 other refugees in Lebanon as they wait for the conflict to end.
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