Reports

RESUME Malgré une production céréalière prévisionnelle moyenne, l'existence de poches de déficits de production agricole au Mali a amené la FAO et le CILSS à entreprendre en février 2003, une mission conjointe. L'objectif de la mission était d'actualiser la situation alimentaire…

Abidjan, 4 February 2003 - WFP's efforts to provide urgent food aid to victims of the civil unrest in Cote d'Ivoire could be seriously hampered without urgent donations from the international community. The agency has launched an appeal for $6.6 million…

NAIROBI - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun an emergency operation to airlift food to more than 100,000 people in the town of Bunia, who have been displaced by fighting in the east of the Democratic…

DAKAR - The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) today launched an appeal to international donors to provide emergency relief food to five countries in western Sahel, where hundreds of thousands of people are threatened with starvation. To avert a…

IP/03/130 Brussels, 28 January 2003 - The European Commission has approved a €35 million package to help meet humanitarian needs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2003. These funds will be channelled through partner organisations working in the…

Over 1,000,000 displaced in Côte d'Ivoire, 80% of whom are women and children Over 150,000 people have already crossed into neighboring countries, straining already weak social service systems US$ 5.7 million needed to cover emergency health, nutrition and…

Release No. IFAD/01/03 Rome, 27 January 2003 - A loan agreement was signed today at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) headquarters by H.E. M. Souhaïb Deen Bangoura, Ambassador of the Republic of Guinea to IFAD, and by Mr.…

A Christian Aid partner is helping people to rebuild their lives in a town called Jojoima in the Kailahun district of Sierra Leone, one of the last areas to be liberated from rebel control. 'Association for People's Empowerment was the…

UNITED NATIONS, New York, 23 January 2003 - Responding to the deadly interaction between HIV/AIDS and food crises affecting some 40 million Africans, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is organizing three regional meetings to help ensure that relief efforts…

Help is on its way to 88,800 hungry Mauritanians who will benefit from a drought relief program of unprecedented scale launched this week by World Vision Mauritania, in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP). Some 13,500 metric tons of…