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The World Food Programme (WFP) (Italian: Programma Alimentare Mondiale) is the food assistance branch of the United Nations, and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger worldwide.
Read More at Wikipedia ›A United Nations agency says an aid worker held hostage in Sudan's South Darfur region for almost three months has been released.
The World Food Program said on Wednesday that Patrick Noonan had been held for a total of 86 days, but was now being cared for by the organization after he was freed from captivity.Noonan, a British logistician for the WFP, was taken hostage on March 6 by a group of armed men, along with his Sudanese driver, who was later released.WFP executive director Ertharin Cousin said in a statement that Noonan's capture has been "a great strain on his family."Britain's Africa minister Henry Bellingham said the U.K. had thanked Sudan's government and the governor of South Darfur for their efforts to help secure Noonan's release....As the global financial crisis bites deeper into the economies of wealthy Western nations, some of the biggest donors to the United Nations ' World Food Program (WFP...
DADAAB, Kenya -- The executive director of the World Food Program says the area hit by famine in Somalia will soon expand.Josette Sheeran visited Kenya's Dadaab refu...
The U.N. World Food Program announced Monday it will cut food assistance to more than 3 million Afghans in about half the country's 34 provinces because of a shortag...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world's nations pledged more than $40 billion to battle needless deaths among poor mothers and their children, and President Barack Obama w...
The dreams of modern India rarely make it to Rayagada. The Indians of these eastern forests forage for sago leaves and wild mango to survive. Barely a third can sign...
The dreams of modern India rarely make it to Rayagada. The Indians of these eastern forests forage for sago leaves and wild mango to survive. Barely a third can sign...
Rebels seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad killed three regime officers in separate attacks Tuesday around Damascus, activists and state media said, the ...
Rebels seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad killed three regime officers in separate attacks Tuesday around Damascus, activists and state media said, the ...
Three Bulgarians flying aircraft for the World Food Program in Sudan were kidnapped Thursday in its troubled western Darfur region, officials said.Bulgaria's Foreign...
As the World Food Program grudgingly prepares to vote on opening its sensitive internal audit system to inspection by the nations that pay its bills, a key United Na...
North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Il's secrecy-shrouded tour of China came to the capital Wednesday for a likely summit with President Hu Jintao as the North appe...
SHANGHAI -- Tentative economic reforms in North Korea may languish as its next leader focuses on consolidating support in the wake of Kim Jong Il's death, experts sa...
The U.N.'s World Food Program is warning that recent fighting between South Sudan and Sudan could push more people into a hunger crisis situation.WFP South Sudan cou...
North Korea is mobilizing workers to irrigate farms and repair wells as officials report a serious drought that could worsen already critical food shortages.Help, ho...
An unexploded bomb sticks out of the earth. Foxholes have been dug by aid workers fearing more airstrikes from Sudan. Streams of hungry refugees are pouring in.The Y...
The European Union naval force patrolling the Indian Ocean on Tuesday carried out its first air strikes against pirate targets on shore, with a pirate reporting that...
European Union naval forces in attack helicopters conducted their first onshore raid on a suspected pirate lair in Somalia Tuesday. A pirate said the strike destroye...
More than 12,000 Congolese fleeing violence at home have crossed into Uganda since the end of last year, and Uganda is planning for an influx of up to 30,000 refugee...
It's 10 a.m., and the 2-year-old is still waiting for breakfast. Aliou Seyni Diallo collapses to his knees in tears and plops his forehead down on the dirt outside h...
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