Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Food

WFP/1061

HUNGER THREATENS HALF MILLION SOMALIS

22/08/2001
Press Release
WFP/1061


HUNGER THREATENS HALF MILLION SOMALIS


(Reissued as received.)


NAIROBI, 22 August (WFP) -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that more than half a million Somalis face a serious food crisis, following the almost total failure of the main rains in southern Somalia.

WFP/1059

WFP WARNS OF POTENTIAL FOOD CRISIS IN CHECHNYA

15/05/2001
Press Release
WFP/1059


WFP WARNS OF POTENTIAL FOOD CRISIS IN CHECHNYA


ROME, 14 May (WFP) -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today urgently appealed for support to avert a potential food crisis in the northern Caucasus region of the Russian Federation, particularly Chechnya, after a severe shortfall in donations forced the agency to scale back drastically on food aid distributions despite severely deteriorating conditions there.

WFP/1056

AT PRAGUE CONFERENCE, COUNTRIES JOINING EUROPEAN UNION CONSIDER ADOPTING SCHOOL MILK PROGRAMMES

14 September 2000


Press Release
WFP/1056


AT PRAGUE CONFERENCE, COUNTRIES JOINING EUROPEAN UNION CONSIDER ADOPTING SCHOOL MILK PROGRAMMES

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ROME/PRAGUE 14 September (FAO) -- With school milk subsidies cut by 20 per cent in the European Union this year, the second European School Milk Conference opened today in Prague for two days with more than 20 countries represented, according to an announcement by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

WFP/1053

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME ANNOUNCES SUCCESSFUL AIRDROPS IN EAST TIMOR

17 September 1999


Press Release
WFP/1053


WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME ANNOUNCES SUCCESSFUL AIRDROPS IN EAST TIMOR

19990917

ROME, 17 September (WFP) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said that the first humanitarian airdrops were completed successfully in East Timor today, with the delivery of desperately needed food and blankets to tens of thousands of people hiding in the mountains from political violence.