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WFP has dispatched a first convoy of food and other supplies for 200,000 displaced people in the LTTE-controlled area of Sri Lanka.

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran today called on donor nations to fully fund urgent hunger needs and infrastructure rehabilitation in Haiti, which has been ravaged by a succession of tropical storms.

The Canadian government has announced that it is extending a life-saving mission by the frigate HMCS Ville de Québec to protect ships loaded with food from the United Nations World Food Programme against pirates off Somalia.

WFP today welcomed the decision by Canada to extend its naval mission protecting ships carrying humanitarian aid to Somalia for a further month.

Gonaives was devastated by recent tropical storms and flooding but WFP and its partners are helping the community get back on its feet.

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran today begins a two-day visit to Haiti to survey the devastation caused by successive cyclones and tropical storms.

WFP on Thursday welcomed a historic private sector commitment under the auspices of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to support improved food and nutrition for millions of schoolchildren in the world's least developed countries.

WFP, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation today unveiled a groundbreaking initiative to help poor farmers across the developing world significantly increase their incomes.

Chief executives from all continents are meeting with government leaders and senior United Nations officials in New York today for the first UN Private Sector Forum on Food Sustainability and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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WFP today appealed for US$460 million to feed 9.6 million hungry people affected by drought and high food prices in Ethiopia through to March next year.

WFP has distributed more than 2,944 metric tons of rice, beans, cooking oil, fresh water and other supplies to Haitians affected by the recent tropical storms.

Just a month after floods devastated a huge swathe of Nepal's eastern region, floods have again ravaged the Himalayan republic – this time in the west.

The Government of Liberia and the United Nations World Food Programme this week launched urban school feeding in the capital Monrovia for 150,000 children short of food because of high food prices.

Tens of thousands of poor, hungry children will soon start to enjoy a nutritious daily meal in class after the Government of Madagascar funded a massive expansion of a school feeding programme.

The amount of food being sent to tens of thousands of people on the storm-ravaged island of Haiti has tripled over the past week as the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has accelerated its hurricane response.

Facts, figures and the lastest updates from WFP's high profile emergencies.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and WFP will use funds raised from the Pavarotti tribute charity concert which will take place on 11 and 12 October 2008 to help returnees in Afghanistan to rebuild their lives.

A year after his death, Luciano Pavarotti's legacy of generosity lives on in a tribute charity concert and memorial ceremony to be held in Petra, Jordan on 11 and 12 October.