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World Food Programme

Hunger crisis grips battered Zimbabwe

'National crisis' grips country struck by economic collapse, AIDS, drought In this photo from the World Food Programme, food is mounted on a donkey, in Musita in Midlands Province, Zimbabwe, this month Thursday. The U.N. food...

Afghanistan: the Long Journey Home

Source: WFP Every day hundreds of Afghan families cross the border at Torkham, a dusty gateway that leads from the life of a refugee in Pakistan to a life of hope in Afghanistan. All they want is to go home.

Mbeki urged to save Zimbabwe coalition deal as inflation soars

• WFP launches appeal to feed half the population • People soon to drop dead on streets, says Tsvangirai Zimbabwe's official inflation rate has surged to 231m per cent as the opposition appealed to South Africa's former...

AFGHANISTAN: Ministry warns of severe food shortage

Source: IRIN Afghanistan faces a deficit of two million tonnes of staple food - primarily wheat flour and rice - to feed millions of vulnerable people in the coming six months, the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and...

Lauren Bush: charity-in-chief (Yahoo!7)

Uncle George is the most powerful man in the world and her grandfather, also George, once was. Lauren Bush gave up her modelling career to start FEED Projects. In 2007, she and business partner Ellen Gustafson, began selling...

Massive relief operation starts in Zimbabwe

Gokwe, 9 October 2008 - It’s been a long time since Sabath Musiiwa had anything to smile about. Her harvest failed, her husband is gravely ill with tuberculosis and her four children have been living on just one meal a day for...

Sudan: Humanitarian Action in Darfur, weekly bulletin no. 35, 09 Oct 2008

Key overall developments - According to the World Food Programme (WFP), plans to gradually increase the ration size for Darfur beneficiaries will not materialise in October as hoped due to supply gaps in vegetable oil as well...

Bring in the mediators, says Tsvangirai

FANUEL JONGWE | HARARE, ZIMBABWE - Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Thursday that power-sharing talks with President Robert Mugabe had stalled and outside mediation was needed to...

ACTUAL POVERTY: "Zimbabwe is the only country facing national crisis"

"Zimbabwe is the only country facing national crisis" World Food Program spokesman Richard Lee accompanied workers handing out dried corn, vegetable oil and other aid in central Zimbabwe over the weekend for a mass...

15 percent of Yemenis live on less than a dollar a day (Business)

The World Food Program (WFP) in Yemen has announced that price hikes are among the factors of a notable rise in the number Yemenis living below the poverty line, a fact that will further frustrate attempts to achieve the U.N.’s...