UN World Food Program to cut food aid for over 1 million people in Myanmar
The United Nations food agency says that more than 1 million people in the war-torn nation of Myanmar will be cut off from food assistance due to critical funding shortfalls ...
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Breaking Barriers: A Woman’s Path From Countryside To Career
Buala Summanbo at the factory From Ahiyoo, a small farming community in the Upper West Region of Ghana, 28-year-old Buala Summanbo, a mother of two, defies all odds to become a mechanical ...
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UN secretary-general arrives in Bangladesh to visit Rohingya refugee camps and push for aid
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Bangladesh on Thursday on a four-day visit to review the situation of more ...
Is the Working Families Party an alternative to Democrats? This leader says voters don’t have to choose.
Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party, explains how the party challenges some Democrats while building power.
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Devex Dish: WFP faces impossible decisions with US funding in doubt
World Food Programme’s funding shortfalls to go from bad to worse amid the U.S. aid freeze. Plus, Brazil takes the lead on ...
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Bangladesh: Rohingya fear crime surge amid food ration cuts
Shafika is one of the over 700,000 Rohingya people who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in 2017 when Myanmar's military launched a "clearance operation" in the country's western Rakhine state.   The ...
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh brace for upcoming food reductions as aid agencies cut funding
Rohingya refugees in crammed Bangladeshi camps say they are worried about a U.S. decision to cut food rations by half beginning next month, while a refugee official says the reduction will impact the ...
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WFP appeals for urgent funding to prevent ratio cuts for Rohingyas
WFP warned of a critical funding shortfall for its emergency response operations in Bangladesh, jeopardising food assistance for over one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh ...
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In Crisis-Hit Parts of Africa, WFP School Meals Offer a Vital Lifeline to Kids - and Their Families
As African governments mark a decade of progress on school feeding, the push is on to get more children on boardA hot Sahelian wind blows dust through the open classroom windows of Kerfi village's ...
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Children Already Dying In Sudan’s Stricken Zamzam Camp: WFP
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) confirmed that it has had to pause the distribution of life saving food and nutrition assistance, due to escalating violence. WFP spokesperson Leni Kinzli said ...
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Sudan facing ‘the abyss’ unless war ends as mass starvation looms, UN warns
More than 600,000 people in Sudan are “on the brink of starvation” as famine stalks the war-torn country, the United Nations has warned. UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Thursday that ...
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UN official calls for efforts to protect civilians as violence intensifies in Sudan's Zamzam camp
The escalating violence has forced the World Food Programme (WFP) to halt food assistance operation in the famine-struck camp, Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary-general ...