More than 250 students have gathered in the two rooms of a small public school here, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the ...
Southern Sudan faces potential famine and the risk of further ethnic conflict, with over one million people already hit by serious food insecurity, ...
Long-awaited rains finally come to parched Kenya, but millions still need food aid The Kenya Meteorological Society says rains have ended the country's long drought but aid officials warn that millions of hungry people still need food aid. Spokesman Ayub Shaka said ...
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Masked gunmen killed two Sudanese policemen guarding a guesthouse run by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region, the aid group said Saturday. The two officers died Thursday and a third was killed on ...
The United Nations said Thursday it had been forced to cut food rations to 90,000 Bhutanese refugees living in camps in Nepal due to a severe funding shortage. The UN's World Food Programme provides rice, lentils and other food to the refugees, ...
ROME (Reuters) - A combination of the food crisis and the global economic downturn has pushed more than 1 billion people into hunger in 2009, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday, confirming a grim forecast released earlier this year. The Food and Agriculture ...
Retired gymnast Li Ning named first Chinese representative to UN World Food Program Retired Olympic champion gymnast Li Ning has been named the first Chinese anti-hunger ambassador for the U.N. World Food Program. Li, 44, became one of China's most famous athletes ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has praised a cooperative farm for securing its richest-ever harvest, state media said Friday, amid foreign reports of severe looming food shortages for the nation. Kim said a tenacious drive "reaped the richest-ever harvest" at the Migok ...
The Pakistani Taliban said Tuesday they carried out the suicide attack on a UN compound that killed five aid workers and closed UN offices nationwide in the worst attack in the capital in months. Four Pakistanis and an Iraqi were killed Monday ...
The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a blast at a United Nations office in the capital which left five aid workers dead, a spokesman for the insurgents told AFP. "This attack was launched by us -- we claim responsibility," Taliban ...
A suicide bomber dressed in military uniform struck inside a heavily fortified UN office in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Monday, killing four Pakistanis and an Iraqi working for the food agency. Police said they were investigating how the bomber managed to ...
A suicide bomber dressed in military uniform struck inside a heavily fortified UN office in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Monday, killing four Pakistanis and an Iraqi working for the food agency. Police said they were investigating how the bomber managed to ...
