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WFP to expand emergency operations in Mindanao

KIDAPAWAN CITY, July 7 (PNA) -– The World Food Program (WFP), currently the world's largest humanitarian agency, is keen on expanding its emergency operations in conflict-affected regions of the country, particularly in Mindanao.

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UN to continue ration aid supply to Myanmar cyclone-hardest-hit area

The World Food Program (WFP) of the United Nations will continue its ration aid supply to survivors in Myanmar's cyclone-hardest-hit area of Laputta in the Ayeyawaddy delta region until September, a l...

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A Generational Shift?

There are young Americans like this all over the nation. These two are from Indianapolis: [George] Srour, 24, was inspired by a Second Presbyterian Church speech given by local civic leader Jim Morris, who at the time was running the United Nations World Food Program. Srour landed an internship with the agency and saw schools in Uganda that didn't have walls or a roof. He raised $35,000 from fellow...

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The Canadian Food Security Policy Group: Coalition of Canadian NGOs Petition Prime Minister to Urge Food Crisis Action at the G-8 Meetings in Japan

TORONTO, ONTARIO -- 07/04/08 -- A coalition of 18 Canadian non-governmental aid organizations have contacted Stephen Harper, urging the Prime Minister to make good on the promises Canada made two months ago with regards to the county's contribution..

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G-8 Leaders Face Economic Woes

Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade

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Wednesday, 2nd July 2008

0753 I want to the world to be on holiday. But that's not possible is it? World Bank pressures G-8 on oil and food WASHINGTON : Warning that rising food and oil prices pose a crisis for the world's poor, Robert Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, is calling on President George W. Bush and other leaders convening in Japan next week in an economic summit meeting to make new aid commitments to...

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UN food agency boosts assistance to Ethiopia

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) announced on Thursday that it is expanding its assistance operations to feed 4.6 million people in Ethiopia in response to the country's pressing appeal for help in staving off hunger-related deat ...

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July 4 Thoughts

A quick primer for those of you who have never in your adult life been proud of your country. On this July 4th, remember that for every political scandal, needless neocon war or story of how we’re hated the world over, you can reflect on these too: Foreign Aid USAID With a 2007 budget of 1 Billion The [...]

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WFP expands food assistance to Ethiopia in response to government's urgent appeal

WFP is expanding operations to reach 4.6 million people in Ethiopia with emergency food assistance, in response to the government's urgent appeal for food and nutrition assistance to avoid hunger-related deaths in coming months.

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Cyclone Nargis: Two months later

Much of the destruction caused by Cyclone Nargis – the merciless storm that struck Myanmar two months ago – is still visible. Large portions of the country's cultivable land and vital crops have been flooded and rendered useless by the catastrophic tidal surge that drove inland from the Indian Ocean.

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World Bank: $10bn needed to combat food crisis

The president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, has urged the leaders of the wealthiest nations in the world and the biggest oil producers to take action at once to stem the ever rising cost of food and energy. Zoellick described the world as entering a danger zone, and made his plea in a letter to [...]

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G8 Must Act Now as 'World Entering a Danger Zone,' Zoellick Says

World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick has called on leaders of the G8 as well as the major oil producers to act now to deal with surging food and energy prices, warning that the world is now “entering a danger zone.”

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Taliban bitten by a snake in the grass

Quote: Taliban bitten by a snake in the grass By Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - The Taliban and their al-Qaeda associates, in what they considered a master stroke, this year started to target the Western alliance's supply lines that run through Pakistan into Afghanistan. Their focal point was Khyber Agency, in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, a key transit point for as much as 70% of...

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Peace and bread

One of the requirements for graduation from my small Midwestern college was regular chapel attendance. By the 1950s, students were no longer expected to worship together but only to attend a weekly hour-long lecture from a distinguished visitor on some high-minded subject. read more

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US agency to buy mostly corn for N.Korea

Source: Reuters * U.S. food aid to be predominately corn * Corn will be milled into flour, not fed to livestock * USAID to buy 50,000 tonnes per month through mid-2009 (Adds details, background) By Lisa ...