Official statements announcing key developments in WFP operations and activities.
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AMMAN – The Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, returned to the Middle East region today to visit Zaatari refugee camp amid concerns of an influx of Syrian refugees crossing the border to Jordan.
Quetta- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today handed over medical equipment worth over 16.2 million rupees to the health department of the Government of Balochistan.
ROME - The Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, will attend the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, beginning on 23 January
KUALA LUMPUR – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the NAZA Group of Companies today launched an online hunger quiz to raise awareness and support for the fight against hunger and undernutrition in Asia. This is the second year that NAZA is sponsoring the initiative.
Davao City —The United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has allocated an additional PhP164 million (US$4 million) to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to further boost the Philippine Government’s Typhoon Pablo (international name Bopha) response. This brings the total U.S. Government commitment to the Pablo humanitarian response to PhP508.4 million (US$12.4 million).
KAMPALA –U.S. Mission Uganda has announced a donation of $12 million to the UN World Food Program (WFP) Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation in support of refugees in Uganda and the chronically food-insecure people in the Karamoja region.
KILIS – The Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, has concluded a visit to Turkey this week by meeting Syrian refugees in Kilis camp on the Turkish-Syrian border.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that while there has been progress recovering from the terrible earthquake that hit Haiti three years ago, Haitians are now facing new food security challenges with the effects of drought, Tropical Storm Isaac and Hurricane Sandy.
ANKARA – The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, will be in Turkey 13-15 January to visit WFP’s food assistance operation for Syrian refugees and to hold meetings with senior government officials in Ankara and Istanbul.