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.

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.

Survey shows high prevalence of food insecurity in Iraq

WFP announces the results of an unprecedented survey in Iraq which concludes that some 6.5 million people 25 percent of the entire population remain highly dependent on food rations and are therefore vulnerable.

WFP supporting local farmers cooperative by purchasing maize from Manica

Maputo For the first time in its ongoing emergency operation in Mozambique, WFP has purchased 100 tons of maize from a Mozambican farmer\'s cooperative in Manica province. The maize will be used as food aid in the districts of Tambara, Guro and Macossa, where WFP is assisting vulnerable people suffering from the second year of drought.