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Mobile phones to deliver PDS rice?

Freakonomics points attention to the World Food Program's (WFP) decision to deliver food vouchers to Iraqi refugee families in Syria through mobile phones using SMS text messaging. The WFP will send a 22-dollar (15-euro) voucher every two months by SMS to each family (who will be provided with a special SIM card), who can then exchange the electronic voucher for rice, wheat flour, lentils, chickpeas,...

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New climate change treaty could be ready in 2010, U.N. official says

A new international treaty to combat climate change will not be ready when 40 world leaders meet next month in Copenhagen but may be finished next year, a top United Nations official said Friday in Barcelona. "What we will need after Copenhagen is a little time," said Yvo de Boer, head of the United Nations climate change secretariat. "I don't know how much time to turn that operational...

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Aid agencies for safe access to South Waziristan IDPs

The UN aid agencies have called for ensuring safety and security to civilians including aid workers engaged in relief activities for displaced persons following military operation in South Waziristan.(..)Dominique, Frankefort Deputy Country Director WFP said there were six registration points five in D.I. Khan and one in Tank that were administered by the Social Welfare Department of NWFP and supported...

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Rwanda Making Progress In Food Security

Rwanda may be among the first African countries to achieve the Millennium development Goal I, if it maintains or increases its pace in reducing food insecurity amongst its citizens.(..)World Food Programme Country Director Abdoulaye Baldé said that there has been great improvement in ensuring food security in Rwanda.

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Stock depletion threatens WFP’s school feeding programme

World Food Programme (WFP) is currently facing challenges to continue its support to the school feeding programme, country director Pablo Recalde has disclosed. And Recalde has said WFP has food stocks to supply as rations to the country’s refugee population up to December this year.

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Kufuor leaves for another tour

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor left Accra Friday for Lagos at the start of a two-week overseas trip that will take him Spain, Italy, Kenya and Ethiopia.(..)From Rome he will travel to Kenya and then Ethiopia on assignment for the United Nations World Food Programme as part of measures to assess and advice on the food crisis currently confronting those two countries.

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USAID Provides $400 Million in Humanitarian Assistance

The American people, through the USAID, have provided US$340 million in emergency and humanitarian food aid - more than 464,000 metric tons – and more than $60 million in emergency nutrition, water, sanitation, hygiene, and similar non-food assistance over the last year to support vulnerable families and communities in Ethiopia.(..)USAID is providing an initial contribution of US$50 million to...

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Wailers Call On Formula 1 Fans To Help Feed School Children

The Wailers, formerly Bob Marley's backing band, called on Formula 1 fans at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to help WFP feed millions of hungry school children around the world.

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Renewed FAO, IFAD And WFP Effort To Fight Hunger

Senior managers agree to intensify cooperation.

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Conserving Soil In The Wake Of Climate Change

As African leaders gathered in Kampala mid last month to attend the African Union Special Summit on Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displace Persons, perhaps not so many of us were actually aware that elsewhere, in the UK, another conference was taking place to warn that the international law is inadequate to deal with millions of people forecast to become climate exiles in the face of escalating...

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WFP and Caterpillar

WFP and CATERPILLAR In January 2009, Caterpillar, the world's largest maker of construction equipment, teamed up with the World Food Programme Logistics via Friends of WFP USA.

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Egypt: Nearly a third of children malnourished

Despite a number of positive economic indicators, Egypt has a hunger problem: Nearly a third of all children are malnourished, according to a new report compiled by the Ministry of Health and the UN Development Programme (UNDP). (..) Poverty levels in Casamance are among the highest in Senegal at more than 60 percent, with nearly half of households vulnerable to food insecurity, according to a 2007...

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So Close To Death

Munir Sheikh and Atif Sheikh know they are lucky to be alive. Despite suffering serious injuries the pair survived a suicide bombing attack in Pakistan. They know they were lucky because many of their colleagues were not. The two men were just metres away from the bomber when he blew himself up and they are now recovering from their injuries in a Dubai hospital. Munir and Atif told 7DAYS how they were...

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The UN in Afghanistan

After the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan was a nation in tatters - in need of basic relief, reconstruction and political and civil development. (..) The World Food Programme (WFP) has been operating in Afghanistan since the 1960s but the country's needs are as acute as ever.

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More DRC refugees sent home

More than 500 Congolese refugees were yesterday repatriated to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from Zambia (..) Home Affairs Deputy Minister, David Phiri, who was the guest of honour at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)-organised repatriation exercise, thanked the UN agency for the milestone achieved in the Congolese repatriation exercise.(..) Others in attendance were...