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WFP, Rescue 15 attacks? mastermind arrested
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 19 days ago
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The Capital Police on Friday arrested the mastermind behind the attacks on the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the Rescue 15 offices in Islamabad. The terrorist, identified as Jamshed Ahmad alias Tahir, had entered Islamabad to hit three targets, including...
Tags: UN World Food Programme, Islamabad, Rescue, Pakistan, Orakzai, Suicide attack, Swat Pakistan, Lal Masjid, War Conflict, Terrorism in Pakistan, Al-Qaeda, War on Terrorism, War in North-West Pakistan, Chronology of terrorist incidents in Pakistan, Waziristan, South Asia
Rehman Malik fears more attacks
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 2 months ago
Credibility Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik condemned the suicide blast at the UN office in Islamabad on Monday, but in the same breath also claimed that the network of terrorists had been dismantled. Talking to the media while inspecting the site of the...
Tags: Pakistan, Islamabad, suicide bomber, UN World Food Programme, suicide bombs, security office
Two killed in blast at UN office in Islamabad
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 2 months ago
Credibility While one of the dead was a foreigner, the other was a Pakistani woman, said Waseem Khawaja, a doctor at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences. A police official told Geo News that seven to eight kg of explosives could have been used and the bomb...
Tags: Pakistani, suicide attack, Ban Ki-moon, Islamabad UN, UN World Food Programme, food agency, United Nations, Pakistan, Islamabad
Starvation ravages East Africa
Nairobi :: Kenya | 3 months ago
Credibility A food crisis has swept through war-torn Somalia and neighbouring Kenya, forcing millions of people to seek aid, and the World Food Program to call for emergency funds to fill a deepening financial gap. "It's the same throughout the region," said Oxfam...
Tags: Kenya, UN World Food Programme, United Nations News, millions kenyans
‘Human Rescue’ Package Needed To Feed Millions
New York :: NY :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility WFP, which aims to feed nearly 100 million of the world’s hungriest people in 2009, announced that it will start the New Year needing $5.2 billion to urgently support its programmes combating global hunger. Unless donors provide a rapid injection of funds,...
Tags: hunger, food, UN World Food Programme, WFP, Afghanistanwith, Ethiopia
UN: Zimbabwe Experiencing Worst Ever Food Crisis
Harare :: Zimbabwe | about 1 year ago
Credibility World Food Program says that nearly half the population of Zimbabwe will need food aid by early next year. Peta Thornycroft reports that WFP says two million people in Zimbabwe need aid immediately. The World Food Program says it needs $140 million to...
Tags: UN World Food Programme, Zimbabwe, WFP
Famine threat for millions in North Korea: UN
Pyŏngyang :: North Korea | about 1 year ago
Credibility More than six million North Koreans have been impacted by successive poor harvests and soaring food prices, which may presage another famine, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said. A n estimated 1.2 million of North Korea's 24-million population have...
Tags: korea, U.N. Food Program Warns, UN World Food Programme, North Korea, north koreans
North Korea food shortages critical in places
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility 6 Beijing: Parts of North Korea are experiencing their worst levels of hunger in nearly a decade, the UN World Food Programme said on Wednesday. Jean-Pierre De Margerie, the World Food Programme's (WFP) country director, said that a food security assessment...
Tags: North Korean, UN World Food Programme, UN's World Food Programme, food crisis, Jean-Pierre de Margerie, late 1990s, U.N., country director, Jean-Pierre De Margerie, Beijing
Insecurity, Drought Puts Millions Somalis In Need
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 1 year ago
Credibility WFP says that insecurity, drought and successive poor harvests are only worsening the suffering of millions, and pushing thousands more into poverty. Price rises in basic commodities and the weakness of the Somali shilling have only added to the misery....
Tags: Somalia, Drought Puts Millions Somalis, dire crossroads, UN World Food Programme, Peter Goossens, WFP, country director, aid workers, London, humanitarian assistance
UN to expand North Korea food aid
Seoul :: South Korea | about 1 year ago
Credibility A US ship carrying tens of thousands of tonnes of food has arrived in North Korea after the communist state authorised a big increase in overseas aid to its hungry people, the UN food agency said on Monday. The World Food Programme said in a statement...
Tags: North Korean, UN World Food Programme, food aid, ship carried, U.S, aid arrived, AP Photo/World Food Program, food agency, carried thousands, nation agreed
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