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2012/05/27 16:48
2012/05/27 16:48
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The director of the UN World Food Programme, Ertharin Cousin, says, “Time is not on our side. If no new food or cash contributions are received immediately, the resulting inability to pre-position and...
2012/05/27 16:48
2012/05/27 16:48
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2012/05/27 05:34
2012/05/27 05:34
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... know the culprit is lack of protein; she wonders if it's something in the water. The U.N. World Food Programme serves lunch at school, but the Diallo sisters don't go. Their parents can't...
2012/05/25 21:32
2012/05/25 21:32
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Like an unwelcome echo from 1984, severely malnourished two-year-old Malla Awa is fighting for his life in a little-known corner of Africa. Nearly three decades ago Band Aid and Live Aid aimed to...
2012/05/25 20:34
2012/05/25 20:34
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... high energy biscuits. A medical screening follows after which they receive an initial two-week World Food Programme food ration. Aid agencies provide urgent medical attention and therapeutic...
2012/05/25 16:12
2012/05/25 16:12
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School at the University of Chicago, the Ounce of Prevention, World Business Chicago and the World Food Programme. Two hundred leaders from the private and public sectors, medicine, NGOs and...
2012/05/25 15:47
2012/05/25 15:47
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... the aid. "Food security of vulnerable populations in Syria is currently fragile," said World Food Programme spokeswoman Abeer Etefa. "Overall poverty levels are also increasing and access...
2012/05/25 15:29
2012/05/25 15:29
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... more than double, said Jean-Martin Bauer, the Food Security Monitoring Systems leader at the UN World Food Programme (WFP). In Ouagadougou a 100kg bag of millet cost 26,000 cfa (US$49) in May...
2012/05/25 13:29
2012/05/25 13:29
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... of concern and is being monitored closely," said Judith Schuler, spokesperson of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Ethiopia, adding that the number of food-insecure people could...
2012/05/25 09:29
2012/05/25 09:29
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The World Food Programme (WFP) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources to buy 20,000 metric tonnes of maize and 10,000 metric tonnes of beans for...
2012/05/25 00:45
2012/05/25 00:45
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2012/05/24 19:29
2012/05/24 19:29
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... more detailed registration of newcomers in Yida, UNHCR gives them tokens for one-month World Food Programme rations that include oil, maize, salt and sometimes beans. The refugee agency...
2012/05/24 12:26
2012/05/24 12:26
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From what we have registered, 50 per cent don't have enough to eat today. DENISE BROWN, World Food Programme: Imagine you're in Australia. There's shopping markets around you; they have...
2012/05/24 11:11
2012/05/24 11:11
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... unemployment rates in the world, and is desperately short of water. Recent data from the World Food Programme, the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam presents a bleak picture: A...
2012/05/24 07:29
2012/05/24 07:29
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Kalma — The World Food Programme (WFP) has said that the leaders of Kalma camp for displaced people asked to postpone the re-registration process to a later date than Saturday as originally...
2012/05/23 13:29
2012/05/23 13:29
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... through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and delivered through the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP). The assistance is in response to the deteriorating humanitarian...
2012/05/23 10:08
2012/05/23 10:08
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... South Sudan, United Press International reports. The money will be delivered through the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP), according to a USAID press release, the news service notes (5/21). The...
2012/05/22 11:57
2012/05/22 11:57
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SAUDI KING Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud through the Saudi Embassy in Manila donated 60 metric tons of desert grown dates to help address the growing of hunger incidents among displaced families in...
2012/05/21 15:43
2012/05/21 15:43
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... the exact extent of any food insecurity is difficult to gauge. UN agencies, including the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which used to assess and...
2012/05/21 07:29
2012/05/21 07:29
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... whose income-generating activities were disrupted or destroyed by the floods. Source: World Food Programme Read more at AlertNet Climate, the Thomson Reuters Foundation's daily news...
2012/05/21 07:29
2012/05/21 07:29
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... Angola the families received cash grants from UNHCR and food rations for three months from the World Food Programme. The Namibian government also donated trucks to transport the families'...