The United Nations World Food Program is investigating allegations that supplies intended for famine victims have been stolen and sold on the open market for profit.
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Allegations of Food Aid Theft Resurface in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The World Food Program said Saturday that it is expanding its food distribution efforts in famine-struck Somalia, where the U.N. estimates that only 20 percent of people needing aid are getting it. Some of those from the outlying regions have walked for days to the capital for help, only for it to be too late. In the pediatric ward in one of Somalia’s best-equipped hospitals, a shriveled baby lies motionless on a crowded ward; a doctor said he weighs less than he did at birth. Doctors push a feeding tube down the nose of a skeletal 3-year-old, his body covered in sores. Mothers lay their babies between the cots on the floor because there are no beds left. Read full article > >
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WFP expands food distribution in famine-hit Somalia after militants withdraw from capital
The UN World Food Programme says it has been forced to cut food rations to Somalis in need of aid, due to a funding shortfall.
A World Food Programme trial is under way in Karamoja, north-eastern Uganda, to try and limit food aid so it is only available to those considered most vulnerable.
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Will Uganda’s food aid trial save lives?
A World Food Programme trial is under way in Karamoja, north-eastern Uganda, to try and limit food aid so it is only available to those considered most vulnerable.
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Eating goat skin to survive in Uganda
The World Food Program had ceased operations in the tribal region of Bajaur following an attack that killed 46 people over the weekend.
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Pakistan Food Program Set to Resume
The UN World Food Programme temporarily suspends food distribution in a Pakistani tribal district where a suicide attack on Saturday killed 45 people.
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Pakistan bombing halts food aid
Three Latvian helicopter crewmen working for the World Food Programme in Darfur in have been released after a month in captivity, the WFP says.
Niger faced the worst hunger crisis in its history, the UN’s World Food Programme says, with almost half the population – 7.3 million people – in desperate need of food.
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Niger hunger ‘worse than 2005′
WFP expands food distribution in famine-hit Somalia after militants withdraw from capital
Sunday, August 14th, 2011
