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News Releases

Official statements announcing key developments in WFP operations and activities.
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Aid professionals

17 November 2009

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Commemorates Pakistan Bomb Victims And Salutes WFP Staff

ROME - The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined the Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme in a commemoration at WFP headquarters to remember the five men and women who died last month in a bomb blast in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.

Statement

6 October 2009

Statement On Number Of Casualties In Attack On WFP Offices In Islamabad, Pakistan

Five people working for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have now been confirmed dead after what local police are describing as a suicide bomb attack at the offices of WFP in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. The ...

Responding to Emergencies

6 October 2009

Update - Statement On Explosion At WFP Offices In Islamabad, Pakistan

Four people working for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have been confirmed dead after what local police are describing as a suicide bomb attack at the offices of WFP in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. ...

Responding to Emergencies

6 October 2009

Statement On Explosion At WFP Offices In Islamabad, Pakistan

There has been an explosion at the offices of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. The explosion took place in the early afternoon local time. Three WFP staff members ...

Logistics

1 July 2009

First WFP Food Rations Provided To Pakistan Returnees

ISLAMABAD – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun providing monthly food rations to families returning home to Pakistan’s tribal areas following the recent upsurge in fighting in the ...

Responding to Emergencies

4 June 2009

Food Provides Critical Lifeline and Stability for Pakistan Displaced

ROME -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is streaming critically needed food assistance to more than two million displaced people in Pakistan and helping to bring stability to the region through an innovative ...

Aid professionals

26 May 2009

EU Food Facility Grant to Boost Farmers’ Productivity

ROME -- Small-scale farmers in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sierra Leone are soon to receive a productivity boost, thanks to innovative projects of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) funded with a 39-million euro donation from the ...

Responding to Emergencies

12 May 2009