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Hunger in the news
18 November 2009

Angola may benefit from G-8's USD 20 billion

Angola is part of a group of 15 african countries to benefit from USD 20 billion granted in the last summit of the most developed nations (G-8) to the poorer countries, according to the adviser of the WFP, Manuel Aranda da Silva. "Angola will be part of this group since it has clear plans in the area of food security, nutrition and agricultural production to solve the basic problems of the rural"- the WFP official told the press at the end of the World Food Security Summit closed today in Rome.
Angola Press
Hunger in the news
18 November 2009

Ethiopia keen to strengthen dev’t activities in collaboration with WFP: Meles

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Ethiopia will further strengthen development activities it has been undertaking in collaboration with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).
The Ethiopian news agency
Hunger in the news
18 November 2009

Speaker calls for closer collaboration between Parliament and UN Agencies

Mrs Joyce Bamford-Addo, Speaker of Parliament, on Tuesday called for a closer collaboration between Parliament and United Nations agencies working in the country to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. (..) Some of the agencies that attended the programme include World Food Programme (WFP).
Ghana News Agency
Hunger in the news
18 November 2009

What is the point of the world summit on food security?

Any thoughts that the world summit on food security, held in Rome this week, was a waste of time (and money) in the absence of any extra financial commitment to eradicating hunger, were swiftly pushed to one side by the president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
The Guardian
Hunger in the news
17 November 2009

Hunger Stalks Women, Kids

In Balan, when two World Food Program (WFP) vehicles rolled into town recently to supervise the cafeteria at a small public school, residents rushed to meet them, hoping for food. The WFP serves one meal a day to more than 500 000 Haitian schoolchildren, providing them with what is often their only meal of the day. The organization also feeds 100 000 women who are pregnant or breastfeeding and 50 000 children under the age of five.
iAfrica
Hunger in the news
17 November 2009

World Food Program In Haiti

A Haitian child carries a bag of food during a food distribution of from the United Nations World Food Program, Programme Alimentaire Mondial (PAM) on November 12, 2009 in Balan a suburb of Ganthier.
The Wall Street Journal
Hunger in the news
17 November 2009

Fear of attacks persist for United Nations workers

United Nations aid workers in Pakistan still fear terrorist attacks, despite being given increased security following a suicide raid that killed five of them. Amjad Jamal, a spokesman for the World Food Programme (WFP) in the country, told the Press Association that they have resumed operations - under security supervision - following the attack last month.
Ireland Online
Hunger in the news
17 November 2009

Mugabe blames sanctions for Zimbabwe food shortage

President Robert Mugabe called for the West to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe, which he said were designed by "neo-colonialist enemies" who want his land reforms to fail. (..) Around 2.8 million of the more than 12 million people living in Zimbabwe might need humanitarian assistance before the next harvest in April 2010, according to the latest crop and food supply assessment from the United Nations World Food Program.
CBC News
Hunger in the news
17 November 2009

Charity plots path out of water poverty

The men, women and children disfiguring the hillside in one remote corner of southern Ethiopia are not a typical African road gang: they have not been hired by a contractor and are not bankrolled by foreign donors. The road they are building is for themselves. (..) When the Financial Times visited Terate last month fewer people than normal were working on the road because it was the day of a UN World Food Programme distribution and many were queuing for wheat.
Financial Times
Hunger in the news
17 November 2009

Canada Pushes Nations To Keep Food Aid Pledges

Canada is using the United Nations food summit to put flesh on its new agricultural-spending commitments in an effort to embarrass other wealthy countries to do the same as one billion people, the highest number on record, go hungry. (..) The rest of Canada's new agricultural spending will go to the UN's World Food Program ($30-million) (..).
The Globe and Mail (Canada)