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World Food Programme Launches Pilot Program Using Mobile Phone Technology to Facilitate Cash Transfers
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a pilot program that uses mobile phone technology to facilitate cash transfers to 54,000 people living in poor districts of Abidjan to assist them to buy food.
World Food Programme Provides Assistance To Sheltered Families In Santa Rosa Affected By Recent Earthquake
The United Nations World Food Programme in Guatemala responded immediately to the needs of the population affected by the recent earthquakes in the Santa Rosa region.
United Nations World Food Programme Rapidly Scaling Up Life-saving Food Distributions in Flood-hit Areas of Southern Pakistan
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly scaling up its life-saving food distributions in the flood-hit areas of southern Pakistan to reach 500,000 people this month with general food rations and highly fortified, locally-produced foods...
Zimbabwe Experiencing the Most Stable Food Security Situation in More Than Five Years
Zimbabwe is experiencing the most stable food security situation in more than five years despite pockets of localized hunger, the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWSNET) said Thursday.
France Charters Aid Ship for Horn of Africa
A ship chartered by France, transporting 381 metric tons of food for the UN World Food Programme (WFP) operations in the Horn of Africa, is scheduled to depart from the port of Toulon, France for Djibouti, which it should reach in around 12 days.
Funding Shortage Forces Cut in Food Rations for Congolese Refugees
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that due to a shortage of funds, the WFP operation in Rwanda will need to reduce food rations for 54,000 Congolese refugees by half from September 1st.
World Food Programme Welcomes $50m Contribution From the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a generous contribution of $50 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the guidance of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abduallah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud that will be used to feed...
Government of China Makes Its Largest Single Donation to World Food Programme Somalia
The government of China has made its largest single donation to the work of the United Nations World Food Programme with $16 million towards the agency’s famine relief operation in Somalia.
