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Coronavirus: How WFP’s East Africa efforts pivot on Somalia’s Berbera port

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Coronavirus: How WFP’s East Africa drive pivots on Somalia’s Berbera Port World Food Programme maintains the reach of its critical assistance to Ethiopia and South Sudan All hands on deck: WFP staff work flat out to ensure disruptions caused by pandemic are minimized. Bags full: USAID donated 45,500 metric tons of sorghum.

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WFP flights between Europe and Africa prove critical during pandemic

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Global Air Passenger Service means humanitarians can continue work assisting others despite severe air-travel restrictions WFP Aviation staff speak with immigration officers at Accra International Airport. Photo: WFP/Derrick Botchway Story by Eleonora Ponti “The organization urgently needs me to fill a vacant position in Mali.

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The WFP humanitarian who went from tackling Ebola to COVID-19

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Despatched to West Africa in 2014, Chiara Camassa draws on a wealth of experience as she helps Haiti respond to the pandemic Chiara standing at WFP’s warehouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Since arriving in the Caribbean country four months ago, Camassa has been the WFP ‘focal point’ for COVID-19 issues?—?largely

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Coronavirus and hunger: WFP ready to assist largest number of people ever

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Latin America at centre of concerns as invisible enemy hits countries beset by climate change and conflict Colombia: WFP and World Vision provide 5,000 food baskets to Colombians and migrants in Soacha, near Bogotá. WFP is issuing an urgent call for US$4.9 Photo: WFP/Khudr Alissa “What is frightening is that the peak is yet to come.

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COVID-19 will almost double people in acute hunger by end of 2020

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COVID-19 will almost double acute hunger by end of 2020 New WFP figures indicate additional 130 million lives and livelihoods will be at risk A woman collects food in Deir Hafer, 60 km from Aleppo in Syria. These new projections show the scale of the catastrophe we are facing,” warned WFP chief economist Arif Husain. “We

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‘The locusts are a moving target and we are racing against time’

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South Sudan is among East African countries experiencing invasions on a scale not seen since 2003–2005 in West Africa A handful of locusts in county Magwi, South Sudan. link]  —  @WFP “What we see today is 55 percent of the population in crisis food-security levels or worse,” says Hollingsworth. And what happens?

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Burkina Faso: The making of a humanitarian crisis

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Photo: WFP/Marwa Awad Less than one week before I flew to Burkina Faso in November, with the emergencies team at the World Food Programme (WFP), miners working for a Canadian-owned goldmine were on their way to work when militants ambushed and attacked them, killing 39 and injuring 60. A third of Burkina Faso is now a conflict zone.