The United Nations World Food Program's director for Somalia says attacks on aid workers and threats to ships delivering food aid to Somalia are putting in danger the lives of the millions who now need urgent food assistance. He also called for a bo...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 19 April 2008 The World Food Program (WFP) has issued a new appeal for financial aid to respond to a growing worldwide food crisis. The agency says soaring fuel and food prices have rendered its original budget of nearly $3 bil...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 23 June 2007 The World Food Program says it is gradually shifting from emergency assistance to Food for Work projects to help thousands of nomadic herders in Djibouti recover from years of recurrent drought. WFP is running thes...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 15 June 2007 The World Food Program (WFP) says it has been able to successfully feed up to three million internally displaced people in Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur. The organization says it has been able to do th...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 May 2007 The World Food Program (WFP) says it will be able to restore food rations it was forced to cut for more than a million displaced people in northern Uganda. As Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva, the WFP says i...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 April 2007 The World Food Program, WFP, says it has been forced to drastically cut food rations for 1.5 million people in northern Uganda, because it has run out of cash. WFP says this life-saving program will have to stop b...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 26 January 2007 The World Food Program (WFP) says it will provide a seven-day ration of food to 125 people who were wounded during the recent anti-government protests in Guinea, because the paralyzing strike is preventing rela...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 16 September 2006 The World Food Program (WFP) says it will wind up its food assistance program in Lebanon by the end of October because of the country's rapid recovery from the war with Israel. A two-week assessment to evalua...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 13 July 2006 The World Food Program says ensuring that children start life with proper nutrition and have access to education aids development. In its first annual hunger report, the U.N. agency says educating mothers about pr...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 July 2006 The World Food Program warns it will have to stop feeding more than 700,000 Angolans in September if it does not receive new cash donations by the end of this month. The U.N. agency says it needs $12.6 million to...