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U.N. convoys have been repeatedly overwhelmed by looters and desperate crowds in recent days, and witnesses say Israeli ...
The World Food Programme (WFP) has called for urgent and collective global action to end hunger, as acute food insecurity continues to rise sharply in crisis-affected regions across the world.WFP ...
The organization claimed that 90,000 people are suffering from malnutrition, and nine people have died from it within the ...
David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Program: It's a very serious problem. And it's a very serious problem all over the world, Nick. And we're facing an unprecedented food crisis ...
U.N. WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CINDY MCCAIN: Good morning. MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about a few hotspots in Africa, but let's start first on the Middle East if we could.
The World Food Programme is the world’s leading humanitarian organization fighting hunger and promoting food security. Founded in 1961, the UN branch aided 97 million people around the world ...
World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize The Rome-based United Nations agency has long specialized in getting assistance to some of the world’s most dangerous and precarious places and ...
A Yemeni boy receives humanitarian aid donated by the World Food Program in Taez, Yemen, on Saturday. (Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP/Getty Images) Last week, the Norwegian Nobel Committee named this year’s ...
World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley was in the Niger capital Niamey in the Sahel—a vast sweep of semi-arid land that separates the Sahara from the Savannah—when he got the ...
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday welcomed a contribution of $3.5 million from the Government of Indonesia to ...