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Climate Change
6 November 2009

New climate change treaty could be ready in 2010, U.N. official says

A new international treaty to combat climate change will not be ready when 40 world leaders meet next month in Copenhagen but may be finished next year, a top United Nations official said Friday in Barcelona. "What we will need after Copenhagen is a little time," said Yvo de Boer, head of the United Nations climate change secretariat. "I don't know how much time to turn that operational language into a treaty, if that is what governments decide."
CNN
Hunger in the news
6 November 2009

Only $479 million received till now for IDPs: UN official

The United Nations Representative in Pakistan on Thursday said that out of the total $680 million pledged by the international community for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), only $479 million have been received so far and remaining 30 percent of the pledges are still awaited. (..) World Food Program Deputy Country Director, Dominique Frankefort said that since the Food Cluster started distributing food in DI Khan and Tank, around 125,000 IDPs from South Waziristan have been provided with 4,000 tons of food.
Business Recorder
Hunger in the news
6 November 2009

Rwanda Making Progress In Food Security

Rwanda may be among the first African countries to achieve the Millennium development Goal I, if it maintains or increases its pace in reducing food insecurity amongst its citizens.(..)World Food Programme Country Director Abdoulaye Baldé said that there has been great improvement in ensuring food security in Rwanda.
The New Times (Rwanda)
Hunger in the news
6 November 2009

Stock depletion threatens WFP’s school feeding programme

World Food Programme (WFP) is currently facing challenges to continue its support to the school feeding programme, country director Pablo Recalde has disclosed. And Recalde has said WFP has food stocks to supply as rations to the country’s refugee population up to December this year.
The Post (Zambia)
Hunger in the news
6 November 2009

Kufuor leaves for another tour

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor left Accra Friday for Lagos at the start of a two-week overseas trip that will take him Spain, Italy, Kenya and Ethiopia.(..)From Rome he will travel to Kenya and then Ethiopia on assignment for the United Nations World Food Programme as part of measures to assess and advice on the food crisis currently confronting those two countries.
Ghana News Agency
Hunger in the news
6 November 2009

USAID Provides $400 Million in Humanitarian Assistance

The American people, through the USAID, have provided US$340 million in emergency and humanitarian food aid - more than 464,000 metric tons – and more than $60 million in emergency nutrition, water, sanitation, hygiene, and similar non-food assistance over the last year to support vulnerable families and communities in Ethiopia.(..)USAID is providing an initial contribution of US$50 million to the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) and US$25 million to a consortium of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to respond to these relief needs.
Nazret.com
Hunger in the news
5 November 2009

Conserving Soil In The Wake Of Climate Change

As African leaders gathered in Kampala mid last month to attend the African Union Special Summit on Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displace Persons, perhaps not so many of us were actually aware that elsewhere, in the UK, another conference was taking place to warn that the international law is inadequate to deal with millions of people forecast to become climate exiles in the face of escalating climate change.
All Africa
Hunger in the news
5 November 2009

WFP and Caterpillar

WFP and CATERPILLAR In January 2009, Caterpillar, the world's largest maker of construction equipment, teamed up with the World Food Programme Logistics via Friends of WFP USA.
Reuters Alertnet
Hunger in the news
5 November 2009

Egypt: Nearly a third of children malnourished

Despite a number of positive economic indicators, Egypt has a hunger problem: Nearly a third of all children are malnourished, according to a new report compiled by the Ministry of Health and the UN Development Programme (UNDP). (..) Poverty levels in Casamance are among the highest in Senegal at more than 60 percent, with nearly half of households vulnerable to food insecurity, according to a 2007 UN World Food Programme (WFP) study.
IRIN
Hunger in the news
5 November 2009

So Close To Death

Munir Sheikh and Atif Sheikh know they are lucky to be alive. Despite suffering serious injuries the pair survived a suicide bombing attack in Pakistan. They know they were lucky because many of their colleagues were not. The two men were just metres away from the bomber when he blew himself up and they are now recovering from their injuries in a Dubai hospital. Munir and Atif told 7DAYS how they were hurled to the ground and saw the room burst into flames at the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) offices in Islamabad.
7 Days (UAE)