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23 November 2004

North Korea has bigger harvest, but millions still need food aid

Pyongyang/Rome - Despite its best harvest in ten years, the Democratic People\'s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will post another substantial food deficit in 2005 and require external aid to support more than a quarter of its 23.7 million people, WFP and the FAO said in a joint press release.

22 November 2004

First American food aid sent through Libya for Darfur refugees in Chad

Al Kufra, Libya For the first time, WFP is sending United States food assistance through Libya, along a humanitarian corridor across the Sahara desert, to reach nearly 200,000 Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad.

22 November 2004

WFP welcomes Czech food aid donation for Albania

Tirana WFP welcomes a donation of 239 metric tons of wheat flour, valued at over US$98,000, from the Czech Republic, for impoverished communities in Albania.

20 November 2004

WFP seeks support for war-ravaged West Africa

Freetown- WFP has called on the international community to bolster support for some one million people in West Africa who are struggling to overcome the devastating effects of war.

18 November 2004

Darfur crisis obscures growing food needs in Sudan's south

Nairobi WFP warns that while the attention of the media has focused heavily on the continuing humanitarian emergency in the Darfur region of western Sudan, the food outlook for southern Sudan in 2005 looks fairly bleak.

16 November 2004

Drought threatens thousands of families in Bolivia, Guatemala and Honduras

Panama WFP launches an international appeal today for US$1 million to fund a six-month emergency food aid operation in Bolivia, where prolonged drought has seriously affected at least 41,000 people.

10 November 2004

Thai Princess agrees to appointment as WFP special ambassador for School Feeding

Rome - WFP today announced that Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand\'s Royal Family will become WFP\'s Special Ambassador for School Feeding.

6 November 2004

WFP airlifts emergency food to Sudan for thousands of malnourished children

Rome - With a generous donation from its first and largest corporate partner - the global mail, express and logistics company TPG N.V. - WFP will transport high-energy biscuits to Sudan this weekend to help feed thousands of children caught up in the conflict-ridden Darfur region.

6 November 2004

WFP food aid reaches isolated flood victims in Haiti mountain district

WFP delivered food aid on June 11 to some of the most isolated villages in the mountainous Mapou district of south-eastern Haiti, for the first time since floods devastated the region two weeks ago, leaving thousands of people cut off and in desperate need of assistance.

5 November 2004

AIDS complicating battle against hunger, says WFP Executive Director

Washington, DC James Morris, WFP\'s Executive Director testifies before Congress on the growing hunger problem around the world and how it is exacerbated by the AIDS crisis.