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25 October 2004

WFP cuts food rations for refugees in Tanzania

Dar Es Salaam Faced with severe funding shortages, WFP is forced to cut food rations to some 400,000 Burundian and Congolese refugees living in 13 camps in western Tanzania.

22 October 2004

WFP Executive Director welcomes South Korean donation for the north's hungry

Seoul - WFP today welcomed a donation of 100,000 tonnes of maize from the Republic of Korea for an emergency operation in North Korea that seeks to assist 6.5 million vulnerable people, most of them children and women.

21 October 2004

WFP launches new operation for Southern Africans ravaged by drought and HIV/AIDS

Brussels - WFP today launched an appeal for US$404 million to support a monthly average of 1.5 million people in five southern African countries ravaged by the "triple threat" of food shortages, high HIV/AIDS rates and weakened capacity for governance.

15 October 2004

World Food Day: WFP warns of "Darfur effect" on forgotten hungry

Rome - WFP marked the occasion of World Food Day by highlighting the plight of hundreds of millions of hungry people around the world whose problems are overshadowed by high-profile emergencies such as the current crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan.

9 October 2004

Security key to wfp food assistance for needy Nepalis

Kathmandu On her first visit to Nepal, WFP Deputy Executive Director, Sheila Sisulu, expressed concern over the impact of the country\'s conflict on the most vulnerable segments of the population, stressing that this severely hampers WFP\'s ability to provide them with food aid.

9 October 2004

WFP distributes food to victims of Beslan tragedy

Moscow WFP has started the distribution of food assistance to the hundreds of children and adults caught up in the Beslan hostage-taking tragedy which left 338 dead and 747 injured.

9 October 2004

WFP helps 260,000 Ugandans return to their homes in the northeast

Kampala WFP starts providing food to help resettle more than 260,000 people driven from their homes in northeastern Uganda by fighting and attacks by the rebel Lord\'s Resistance Army (LRA)

8 October 2004

Angola returnees hit by serious funding shortfall

Johannesburg - An acute funding shortage is seriously hampering international efforts to resettle tens of thousands of people who fled their homes in Angola during the long civil war. WFP has received only US$45 million or 18 percent of its appeal for US$253 million to feed 1.4 million returning refugees and displaced people until the end of 2005. This has forced the agency to slash cereal rations by 50 percent.

3 October 2004

WFP and UNICEF launch emergency appeals to help over 600,000 women and children in Namibia

Johannesburg - WFP and UN Children\'s Fund (UNICEF) launch emergency appeals totalling US$5.8 million to help more than 600,000 orphans, vulnerable children and women in Namibia, who are suffering from the combined effects of erratic weather, severe poverty and the worsening HIV/AIDS epidemic.

30 September 2004

WFP sends world's biggest cargo plane with aid for Haitian flood victims

Rome - A giant Antonov-124 cargo plane took off from the United Nations Humanitarian Depot in Brindisi today carrying 100 metric tons of High Energy Biscuits provided by WFP for the thousands of victims of last week\'s devastating floods in northwest Haiti. The flight is expected to arrive in Port au Prince on Friday.