WFP is stepping up food distributions in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where recent fighting between the Congolese army and Laurent Nkunda's rebels has heightened the need for food assistance. Read more
Women in Afghanistan are learning skills that will keep their families out of hunger in the future. Thanks to WFP food rations, they can think about learning rather than the next meal.
Hunger and the global food crisis deserve to find space on the crowded Obama agenda today, writes Nancy Roman, WFP's Director of Public Policy Strategy.
Help arrives as WFP works to move 150,000 tons of food into Somalia by the end of the year and the Horn of Africa region faces its worst humanitarian crisis since 1984.
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