Updates and background information on WFP's humanitarian operations in Sudan: includes news and feature stories, press releases, latest galleries, media contacts and country briefs.
 Photo gallery: Feeding the hungry of south Sudan, 9 August 2005
The strain on south Sudan is growing, with hundreds of thousands of people returning after two decades of conflict and harvests suffering as a result of drought. Mohamed Bashir describes a typical distribution of WFP food aid to the hungry.
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Press release: WFP mourns loss of Sudan's first vice president John Garang, 2 August 2005
| WFP says it deeply regrets the death of the Republic of the Sudan’s First Vice President John Garang de Mabior, killed in a helicopter crash on Saturday as he returned to southern Sudan from Uganda. |
Press Release: Libya covers fuel costs for airlift, 25 July 2005
| WFP welcomes Libya’s agreement to help cover the costs of its airlift of food aid to western Sudan’s Darfur region |
In Depth: A day in the life of an aid worker
| Read about how the head of WFP's field office in Malakal, South Sudan, goes about ensuring food is delivered to thousands of war-affected people who are displaced and hungry.
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Press Release: annual 'hunger season' looms, 17 June 2005
| WFP says that up to 3.5 million people - or more than half the entire population of western Sudan’s Darfur region - will need food aid at the height of the annual "hunger season" from August through the month of October. |
Photo gallery: South Sudan returnees race rains, June 2005
| In South Sudan, some 5,000 IDPs are making the long journey home, trying to reach their destination before the rainy season peaks. |
Briefing: food security in decline
| Three WFP-led inter-agency assessments confirm that food security throughout Sudan sharply deteriorated this year.
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Press release: funding to avert disaster, 24 May 2005
| A top WFP official indicates that the crippling shortage of funds for the agency's operations in southern Sudan must be corrected urgently to avoid serious suffering for those who experienced famine in 1998 in Bahr El Ghazal. |
In Brief: WFP condems killing of drivers, 12 May 2005
| WFP has condemned the killing by bandits of two drivers of WFP-contracted trucks in South Darfur, warning that a spate of attacks is sabotaging its efforts to provide food aid for more than two million people in the Darfur region. |
Photo gallery: The El Obeid Logistics Hub, 3 May 2005
| Find out how a nondescript, sun-scorched airport in the centre of Sudan serves as a staging point for one of the largest humanitarian operations taking place in the world today. |
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Click here for a Q&A on what lies behind severe food shortages and how hungry people are helped
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