January 2012
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Top UN Official Warns Of Continued Risk Of Famine In Somalia –The Guardian
Mark Bowden, who leads the UN relief efforts in Somalia, says many people remain in a precarious position and would need assistance on a regular basis. Bowden said last year’s aid enabled relief agencies to reduce the number of people at risk of outright famine from 750,000 to 150,000, and prevented the spread of...
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ICRC Suspends Aid Distribution In Somalia —CNN
Distribution of food, seed, and medical relief intended for drought victims in Somalia has been suspended, the International Committee of the Red Cross announced Thursday. The aid intended for up to 1.1 million people has been held up because local authorities blocked distribution of ICRC food and seed relief in the Middle Shabelle and...
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Nigeria Strike Unites Classes, Growing Anger Over Corruption, Fuel Prices In Troubled Nation –The Washington Post
The protest first drew Nigerians who live hand-to-trash, scavenging through mountains of garbage to make a living. Now, long lines of cars and expensive motorcycles are parking near a demonstration that is drawing more than 10,000 people angry about life in Africa’s most populous...
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Food Insecurity In Pakistan Rises To 58%, National Nutritional Survey —News Pakistan
According to a survey conducted by National Nutritional Survey in 2011, almost 58% of Pakistanis are food insecure. A WFP representative said, “The situation has gone from bad to worse especially in Sindh where malnutrition and food insecurity among women and children has increased.”
Syria Battles Food...
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Haiti -Two Years Post Earthquake: What You May Not Know —The Huffington Post
Before and since the earthquake in 2010, Haiti has faced great challenges - ones they are working to confront and to lead the international community in helping them solve.
Rio+20 Can Make A Difference —The Guardian
Rio+20 can and must make a difference. But there is no prospect of achieving the...
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Going With The Grain Gives Food For Thought –The Sydney Morning Herald
This month Freerice welcomed its millionth member. ”Freerice not only feeds the hungry, it supports local markets and farmers,” the WFP head of web, Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski, said. ”We also focus on sustainable solutions to enable communities to feed themselves. And, buying rice locally in Cambodia to...
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Famine Concerns As Dry Season Starts In January —The Star
There are concerns over hunger as Kenya enters what is traditionally the driest season on the calendar. “High levels of food security remain for poor and very poor households with non-self supporting livelihoods,” says the October 2011 to March 2012 report by Famine Early Warning Systems Network, WFP, and the Ministry of...
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Honduras: Breaking Free From "The Coyotes"
Honduras farmer Don Juvenilo Navarro is celebrating the fact that he is now able to sell his crops for a fair price. Through a WFP initiative called P4P, sponsored here by the European Commission, he learned how to use fertilizers and herbicides better and also how to connect better to markets. “Before, the ‘coyotes’ would buy our sacks for a low price without weighing...
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UN Agency Voices Deep Concern Over Continued Ethnic Violence In South Sudan —UN News Centre
WFP expressed deep concern today about the deadly ethnic violence in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, where thousands of people have had to flee their homes in recent days. WFP has started rushing in supplies to Pibor residents, with enough emergency rations to feed more than 1,000 people for two weeks....
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Rope Of Life
Madia’s community has developed a simple rope-making device that can be even used by the blind. This WFP project helps to revive the craft of rope making and train village women in effective marketing techniques. With financing from the European Commision, the efforts aim to empower communities and promote self- sufficiency in Central Mindanao, as displaced residents return home and start...
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Kenya: Famine Concerns As Dry Season Starts In January —allAfrica.com
There are concerns over hunger as the country enters what is traditionally the driest season on the calendar. According to a report by the Ministry of Agriculture, although food security is improving, poor families are not off the hook yet.
UN Launches $3M Food Program In Urban Afghanistan —Medical Daily
WFP will...
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Return Of 640 IDP Households In Al-Waha Locality In N. Darfur —Sudan Vision
Al-Waha Locality in North Darfur State witnessed over the past days return of 640 households to their original villages as part of efforts exerted by the Humanitarian Aid Commission, Nomad Development Council, WFP, GOAL and the ICRC. Commissioner of Al-Waha Locality, Abdul Rahman Mohamed Eissa, said his Locality is...
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WFP Scheme To Buy Local Helps Farmers In Zimbabwe —The Guardian
WFP initiative that is prompting Mamombe’s return to maize farming involves technical support to smallholder farmers and the identification of local traders who can guarantee them prompt cash payments and low transport costs as a result of a more efficient marketing policy. WFP then buys the grain from the traders to...
