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Canada is deploying a frigate off Somalia to escort U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) ships carrying vital aid and protect them from pirate attacks, the Canadian government said on Wednesday.
"Food...
International donors have funded only about a third of a $637 million aid appeal for Somalia, where drought, violence and record food prices threaten a disaster, a senior U.N. official warned on...
The U.N. food agency urgently needs $222 million to avert a major food crisis in Ethiopia, where millions are struggling to cope with drought and high prices, it said on Monday.
The Ethiopian...
The killing and kidnapping of aid workers in Somalia threatens to wreck all attempts to resolve a humanitarian disaster that could soon rival its famine in the early 1990s, the United Nations...
Ethiopian mother Ayantu Tamon has lost a child to hunger every year for the last four and now cradles her severely malnourished and weakened three-year-old son Hirbu in her arms.
"I just hope...
A lack of funds has forced the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) to cut by more than half the number of districts in drought-hit Ethiopia it serves, the food agency said on Monday and appealed for...
Somalis uprooted by fighting in Mogadishu looted trucks carrying U.N. food aid on Friday, peacekeepers said, highlighting what relief agencies warn is a fast deteriorating humanitarian...
Bristling with heavy machineguns and computerised grenade launchers, the HDMS Thetis with its crew of Danish marines is shepherding vital food aid through one of the world's most dangerous...
The United Nations estimated on Friday that 500,000 people caught up in post-election violence in Kenya would need humanitarian assistance including vital food rations.
It plans to seek funds next...