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Four dead in ambush of World Food Program convoy in Nigeria

Bauchi - Muslimchronicle

Four people were killed when a United Nations World Food Program (WFP) aid convoy was ambushed in northeast Nigeria, a WFP spokeswoman said on Sunday, in the latest attack in the region as the conflict with Boko Haram nears its ninth year. “WFP can confirm that a convoy escorted by the Nigerian military including WFP-hired trucks was the subject ofRead more

UN humanitarian aid workers return to Yemen on first flight to Sanaa

Sanaa - Muslimchronicle

A flight carrying humanitarian aid workers has landed in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Saturday, the first in three weeks, an official of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said. “First plane landed in Sanaa this morning with humanitarian aid workers,” Abeer Etefa, WFP regional spokeswoman told Reuters in an email on Saturday. The coalition fighting the armed HouthiRead more

UN: Yemen Cholera Cases May Pass 300,000

Geneva - Muslimchronicle

A cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen could infect more than 300,000 people by the end of August, up from nearly 193,000 cases today, the United Nations said Friday. "Probably at the end of August we will reach 300,000" cases, U.N. children's agency spokeswoman Meritxell Relano told reporters in Geneva during a conference call. Since the outbreak was declared in April,Read more

VP Affirms Continuation of Extending Humanitarian Assistances to South Sudan

Khartoum - Arab Today

The Vice - President of the Republic and chairman of the higher committee for humanitarian aid, Hassabo Mohamed Abdul-Rahman, has asserted the necessity of continuation of delivery of humanitarian assistances to South Sudan State before the rainy season . This came when Hassabo met Monday at the Republican Palace the Humanitarian Aid Commissioner (HAC), Ahmed Mohammed Adam, who briefed theRead more

VP Affirms Continuation of Extending Humanitarian Assistances to South Sudan

Khartoum - Arab Today

WFP probes bomb attack on its convoy in Somalia

Mogadishu - Arab Today

The World Food Programme (WFP) said Monday it had launched investigations into an explosion that left two security guards escorting its team slightly injured on Sunday. WFP Somalia spokesperson Amor Almagro confirmed that the roadside bomb explosion occurred 100 meters behind a moving WFP convoy in Mogadishu. "The occupants of the WFP vehicles -- including WFP staff and a visitingRead more

Ibrahim Mahmud Meets WFP Official

Khartoum - Arab Today

The Assistant of the President of the Republic, Engineer Ibrahim Mahmud Hammed reviewed with the World Food Program Representative in Sudan the humanitarian role could be played by Sudan to provide food security for the needy in the region . The WFP Official who met, Wednesday, at the Republican Palace, Engineer Hammed, said in press statements that Sudan support inRead more

WFP condemns killing of 3 workers in South Sudan

Rome - Arab Today

The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday it was horrified to learn that three workers contracted as porters by WFP's office in Wau, South Sudan, were killed during violence that wracked the city earlier this week. The three men -- Daniel James, Ecsa Tearp and Ali Elario, all citizens of South Sudan -- appear to have been killed onRead more

WFP condemns killing of 3 workers in South Sudan

Juba - Arab Today

The World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday condemned the killing of three workers contracted as porters by its office in South Sudan's Wau during violence earlier this week. WFP said in statement that it learned of the death of three men, all citizens of South Sudan, on Thursday from the company that employed them, which is contracted by WFP toRead more

Yemen close to 'breaking point' as U.N. scales up food aid

London - Arab today

With Yemen close to "breaking point" and nine million people on the brink of starvation, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday said it was scaling up its food aid to tackle one of the world's worst hunger crises. More than two years of civil war have cut food deliveries by more than half and pushed the countryRead more