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Hunger in the news
10 November 2009

UNICEF Chief Focuses on Child Health, Climate Change on Visit to Mali

The head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said greater attention should be paid to the negative impact of climate change on the world's poorest and most vulnerable people, especially children (..). She praised a food-for-work programme in Timbuktu, supported by the World Food Programme (WFP), where women grow vegetables and rice on land that has been reclaimed from the advancing desert.
News Blaze
Hunger in the news
9 November 2009

Yemen: 100,000 IDPs Get WFP Food Aid

Military operations in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of northwestern Pakistan have forced hundreds of households to abandon their homes and seek refuge in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Kunar (..) UNHCR said it had distributed tents, blankets, jerry cans, plastic sheets, warm clothes, soap and sleeping mats to 289 displaced families, and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) was planning to deliver food to 290 families in the near future.
IRIN
Hunger in the news
9 November 2009

Displaced Pakistani Families Hosted In Kunar Province

Military operations in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of northwestern Pakistan have forced hundreds of households to abandon their homes and seek refuge in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Kunar (..) UNHCR said it had distributed tents, blankets, jerry cans, plastic sheets, warm clothes, soap and sleeping mats to 289 displaced families, and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) was planning to deliver food to 290 families in the near future.
IRIN News
Hunger in the news
9 November 2009

U.N. resumes full food aid to Bhutan refugees in Nepal

The U.N. food agency has resumed full supplies of food rations to tens of thousands of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal with the help of aid from Australia, a month after the financial crisis curbed the programme. About 90,000 refugees of ethnic Nepali origin live in United Nations-supervised camps in southeast Nepal since they began fleeing Bhutan in the early 1990s, alleging human rights violations and discrimination.
Reuters
Hunger in the news
9 November 2009

UN Kabul staff begin to arrive in Dubai

Some 30 UN personnel based in Afghanistan were flown to Dubai last night, the first of hundreds due to be temporarily relocated following a deadly attack that targeted the world body in Kabul last month. (..) The UN has approximately 6,000 staff across Afghanistan, including 1,100 international staff. Those who will be temporarily based in Dubai work for agencies including the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, the World Food Programme (WFP).
The National (UAE)
Hunger in the news
9 November 2009

UN humanitarian group extends rice ration to Laoag victims

The United Nations World Food Program has continued extending food relief to victims of storm Pepeng that devastated northern provinces last month. (..) Josette Sheeran, WFP executive director, said the agency will continue working with the Philippine government in helping victims of calamities which led to more than 500 deaths, displaced thousands of families and caused crop damages.
Philippine Information Agency
Hunger in the news
9 November 2009

Australia Pledges sh173b To End Hunger

The Australian government has pledged about sh173b to fight hunger in Uganda and other African countries in the next four years. (..) The UN World Food Programme estimates over a billion people in the world lack food (..).
The New Vision (Uganda)
Hunger in the news
9 November 2009

China sets example to world in beating hunger: UN food agency

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) on Monday hailed the declaration of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (..). "I applaud the declaration underlining the important role that investment in food security, agriculture and infrastructure plays in meeting the food needs of Africa's people," said WFP executive director Josette Sheeran in a statement issued Monday, according to the WFP China Office.
Xinhua
Hunger in the news
9 November 2009

Climate change jeapordising food security, warn NGOs

Some of the world’s leading humanitarian organisations have issued a joint statement pressing for urgent action amid changing climate conditions. (..) Instead the groups, which also include the Red Cross, Oxfam, and the World Food Programme, are appealing to the world to move “urgently" towards embracing a two-fold approach.
Christian Today
Hunger in the news
9 November 2009

Kufuor Grabs Another Doctorate Degree

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor left Accra Friday morning for Lagos, Nigeria, for a two-week working visit that will take him to Spain, Rome, Kenya and Ethiopia. (..) From Rome he will travel to Kenya, and then Ethiopia, on assignment for the United Nations World Food Programme.
Peace FM online (Ghana)