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World
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Region
7/29/2023 11:05:07 AM
The United Nations has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to millions of people in many countries because of “a crippling funding crisis” that has seen its donations plummet by about half as acute hunger is hitting record levels, a top official said late Friday.
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World
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Africa
7/5/2023 6:59:54 PM
The number of people diagnosed with severe malnutrition in Ethiopia's war-scarred Tigray region has increased sharply, with conditions set to worsen following a recent halt to food aid, the United Nations said in its latest update.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/2/2023 7:49:00 PM
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has granted Egypt $431 million to support the country's food security goals as part of its 2023-2028 strategic plan.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/20/2023 5:46:29 PM
The Egyptian government and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have opened a humanitarian corridor between Upper Egypt’s Aswan and Sudan’s Wadi Halfa in the north of the country.
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World
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Africa
6/11/2023 8:57:21 PM
The Ethiopian government on Saturday criticised a move by two major aid organisations to halt the sending of food assistance to the country after discovering it was being diverted from those who need it.
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World
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Region
5/30/2023 10:26:16 PM
For the first time in Syria’s 12-year war, people in every district are experiencing some degree of “humanitarian stress,” and a staggering 15.3 million, nearly 70% of the population, need humanitarian aid, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/29/2023 9:56:24 PM
The Government of Japan has announced extending its support to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Egypt, contributing $500,000 to provide critical food assistance to people fleeing the conflict in Sudan.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/26/2023 3:01:17 PM
Regional Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) Menghestab Haile announced the provision of $100,000 to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries to enhance knowledge exchange efforts with Egypt.
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World
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Africa
5/24/2023 6:39:56 PM
The World Food Program (WFP) on Wednesday appealed for 810 million US dollars over the next six months to scale up humanitarian assistance for millions of people in the Horn of Africa who are trapped in a hunger emergency.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/22/2023 5:02:01 PM
The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) announced on Monday that it had allocated $5 million to support the United Nations' efforts in Egypt to help people fleeing conflict in Sudan.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
5/22/2023 11:21:19 AM
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) joins up with an emergency cash assistance programme to provide support for people fleeing the conflict in Sudan and arriving into Egypt.
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World
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Region
4/16/2023 5:22:06 PM
The UN's food agency on Sunday said it was suspending work in Sudan after three staff were killed in the restive Darfur region, as fighting raged between the army and paramilitaries.
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World
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Africa
4/14/2023 2:48:28 PM
The United Nations warned Friday that it would no longer be able to feed 600,000 refugees in Chad within weeks unless it receives urgent international funding.
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World
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International
4/1/2023 10:39:56 AM
Without billions of dollars more to feed millions of hungry people, the world will see mass migration, destabilized countries, and starving children and adults in the next 12 to 18 months, the head of the Nobel prize-winning U.N. World Food Program warned Friday.
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World
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Africa
3/30/2023 4:33:52 PM
Food aid rations for refugees in Burundi, mostly Congolese fleeing violence in eastern DR Congo, will be halved from April 1, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced Thursday, citing a lack of funding.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/27/2023 5:05:46 PM
The World Food Programme warned on Friday that hunger rates in Syria have soared to record highs after more than a decade of devastating conflict.
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World
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Africa
1/24/2023 11:31:59 PM
After five consecutive below-average rains, the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa is expanding and deepening, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has warned.
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World
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Africa
11/11/2022 1:57:04 PM
Ethiopia's lead negotiator in ongoing peace talks asserted Friday that 70% of the country's northern Tigray region is now under military control and aid deliveries have resumed to the area, but there is no immediate confirmation from aid workers or Tigray spokesmen.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/22/2022 10:18:25 AM
Ocheiga Enoch isn't expecting much of a rice harvest from north-central Nigeria after floodwaters submerged his fields and those of so many other farmers this season.
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World
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International
9/23/2022 4:05:33 PM
The U.N. food chief warned Thursday that the world is facing ``a perfect storm on top of a perfect storm'' and urged donors, particularly Gulf nations and billionaires, to give a few days of profits to tackle a crisis with the fertilizer supply right now and prevent widespread food shortages next year.
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