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Huge quantity of Yemen food aid diverted by fighting

Thousands of tonnes of food aid for war-ravaged Yemen have been diverted from the port of Aden because of heavy fighting there, U.N. officials said on Monday. It is the latest setback for aid agencies trying to reach hundreds of t

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One million Gazans in need of food aid says UN

Almost a million people are expected to need food aid in the Gaza Strip next year, a UN agency said as it appealed for $95 million from donors. About 813,000 Palestinian refugees currently receive food aid from the United Nations

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One million Gazans in need of food aid says UN

Almost a million people are expected to need food aid in the Gaza Strip next year, a UN agency said as it appealed for $95 million from donors. About 813,000 Palestinian refugees currently receive food aid from the United Nations

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White House mulls cash for new food aid

The White House may soon propose the biggest change in US food aid since the programmes were created during the Cold War - donating cash for hunger relief instead of shipping American-grown food to global trouble spots, say farm groups and chari

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TNT Express airlifts aid for Somalia

TNT Express has uplifted 45 tons of emergency food aid to Nairobi, Kenya, to help the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) feed thousands of children in neighboring Somalia. A Boeing 767 aircraft containing more than 3,000 boxes of s

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G8 may back new approach to food aid

The Group of Eight rich nations is expected to back a US proposal next week that would seek a more "coordinated approach" to food aid and development, a top US official said. Michael Froman, US deputy national security adviser for internat

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Cost of food aid soars as global need rises

A "perfect storm" of drought, conflict and rising costs has increased the ranks of the chronically hungry by millions of people. This has forced aid workers to find and fund longer-term solutions to the food crisis. As the world ma

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