"The Ethiopian government has asked the international community for emergency food aid for 6.2 million people."

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Attack on WFP unjustifiable: UN Secretary-General

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today most strongly condemned the suicidal attack on the World Food Offices in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. According to UN sources, a few have been confirmed dead while the critically injured are being treated in hospital.

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GENEVA: A suicide bomb attack on a World Food Programme (WFP) office in Islamabad that killed five people on Monday was a 'heinous crime,' United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon said.

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Terrorist suicide bombing of UN in Islamabad, Pakistan. Videos.

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There has been an explosion at the WFP offices in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. The explosion took place in the early afternoon local time.

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AID ORGANISATIONS PRAISE TNT'S HUMANITARIAN HELP Sunday, 12 Jul 2009 Written by Tanja Gauldie When the cyclone Aila struck more than 42 small islands in the Ganges delta area on 25th May, the West Bengal government and the military forces rushed to help.

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Cristiano Ronaldo, football's world player of the year in 2008, is about to leave British club Manchester United for Spain's Real Madrid, for a record fee of US$130 million. WFP's Greg Barrow reflects on what that figure means in hunger terms.

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Quenching Yemen's Thirst

I'm headed down to Bab al Mandeb—a narrow strait, spanning only 12 miles from the Middle East to Africa—to spend an afternoon with Abdalla Abrahem, a fisherman.

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Refugee's stop, don't settle - Those fleeing Somalia must move on

TAIZ, Yemen | "This is the first food I've eaten in four days," Habiba Mohammad Hassan, a 17 year old Somali girl says while opening a packet of high energy biscuits from the U.N. World Food Program (WFP).

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The high-profile hijacking of US ship Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates has thrown a spotlight onto the fragile food lifeline supporting millions of hungry people in the Horn of Africa.

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A UN World Food Programme (WFP) contractor was shot dead in the Somali capital Mogadishu overnight by unknown gunmen.

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The aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, political turmoil in Zimbabwe, security incidents in Somalia and drought in Uganda and Kenya will force millions into starvation.

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Gunmen killed a U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) worker on Thursday as his team distributed aid in Somalia's anarchic capital Mogadishu, the second staff member murdered this week.

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Islamist militia in control of Somalia's southern port of Kismayo seized aid trucks and warned the UN's World Food Program (WFP) about future aid deliveries, Radio Garowe reported Wednesday.

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Purchase for Progress (P4P) is a groundbreaking initiative to transform the way the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) purchases food in developing countries.

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MORE than 44 million people in Southeast Asia have in just two weeks been consigned to poverty by the "triple hit" of the global financial crisis, rocketing fuel costs and rising food prices.

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Pirates seized a tanker and attacked a UN food ship that escaped, officials said Saturday, the latest in a series of incidents off Somalia which have sparked worldwide concern.

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Time is running out for Somalia. As many as 3 million people - one-third of the country - live under threat of starvation. Their lifeline is the sea, from which food, medical supplies, and other aid arrives. And there lies the problem.

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The United Nations appealed on Monday for international help to protect U.N. food shipments in Somalia's pirate-infested waters, warning of shortages if no country came forward.

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Unidentified gunmen kidnapped two Somali employees of the U.N.'s World Food Program Sunday, a Mogadishu-based member of the organization said, bringing to 20 the number of humanitarian workers kidnapped this year.

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The United Nations classifies Laos as one of the world's "least developed" countries. And no wonder. Half of all children here are chronically malnourished during their first five years of life. They suffer "stunting" as a result.

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The United Nations on Sunday threatened to suspend emergency food deliveries to parts of war-torn Darfur in western Sundan if the security situation does not improve. The warning comes after a surge of hijackings and bandit attacks.

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A UN World Food Programme (WFP) employee suffered gunshot wounds Saturday after his vehicle was attacked in southern Somalia The WFP employee "was attacked by an unidentified militia; they wounded him as he was on his way home" in the city of Merka, around 100 kilometres (60 mile …

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A World Food Programme employee and his chauffeur are feared dead in Somalia after a botched kidnapping, a U.N. official said Sunday citing a third member of their party who got away.

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