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WFP Sri Lanka Country Brief, June 2021

Reliefweb 02 Nov 2021
45 percent of women of reproductive age group are overweight or obese; 33 percent of pregnant and lactating women are anaemic (Demographic and Health Survey, Sri Lanka, 2016) ... .
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How WFP Raises Locals' Livelihoods, Fights Poverty

All Africa 02 Nov 2021
WORLD Food Programme (WFP) will continue working with the government to ensure that refugees and other vulnerable people in Tanzania, including host communities, are able to meet their basic food and nutrition requirements ....
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WFP Sri Lanka Country Brief, September 2021

Reliefweb 02 Nov 2021
WFP will pay out approximately US$ 35,000 as cashbased transfers to 1,936 beneficiaries who joined resilience building activities in September. US$ 0.84 million - six months net funding requirement (October 2021 – March 2022) ... .
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WFP Madagascar Country Brief, September 2021

Reliefweb 02 Nov 2021
WFP assisted 372,432 beneficiaries with in-kind food assistance and 178,750 beneficiaries through cash transfers in the 9 droughtaffected southern Madagascar districts. WFP is currently reaching 687,000 people in IPC 3+ under its emergency response in Southern Madagascar.
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WFP Uganda Country Brief, September 2021

Reliefweb 02 Nov 2021
In Arua, WFP initiated discussions with key stakeholders (UNHCR, OPM, DLGs and CPs) in West Nile and Acholi Sub-Region about the introduction of CBT in Palabek and Bidibidi and its expansion in Adjumani, Kiryandongo and Rhino Camp refugee settlements ... • WFP conducted ...
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WFP Sierra Leone Country Brief, September 2021

Reliefweb 02 Nov 2021
WFP provided specialized nutritious foods (Super Cereal Plus, Super Cereal) and fortified vegetable oil to 5,538 children aged 6-59 months, as well as pregnant and lactating women under its Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) treatment programme in Bo, Kailahun and Kenema districts.
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Will sell stock if...: Elon Musk hits back at WFP director's comment on hungerBeasley's comment ...

Deccan Herald 02 Nov 2021
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took on United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) director David Beasley on Sunday, challenging the latter's claim that even 2 per cent of money from the richest could help solve the global hunger problem ... It's not complicated, that sum would equate to roughly 2% of Musk's net wealth," the WFP director had said.
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WFP Nigeria Country Brief, August 2021

Reliefweb 02 Nov 2021
In August, at the peak of the lean season, WFP scaled up crisis response food assistance to reach 1,791,858 people in need ... WFP assisted vulnerable people in Borno, Adamawa, Yobe and Zamfara States with 20,117 mt of in-kind food and cash-based transfers of USD 8.1 million.
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WFP South Sudan Situation Report #296, 29 October 2021

Reliefweb 02 Nov 2021
2.4 million people WFP plans to assist in October 2021 ... USD 1.5 billion Global Humanitarian Funding Requirement 2021 (USD 671 million for WFP). USD 568.3 million WFP six month net funding requirement from November 2021 to April 2022 ... To date, WFP has supported 284,848 flood-affected people with food and nutrition assistance.
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WFP Senegal Country Brief, August 2021

Reliefweb 02 Nov 2021
To mitigate the hardship of the lean season for vulnerable populations, WFP worked closely with the Government and humanitarian partners to address food insecurity and malnutrition challenges ... The results allowed WFP to select the most appropriate transfer modality for each intervention area.
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Climate magnifies hunger in Madagascar, forecasted poor rains bring dread and despair (WFP - World Food Programme)

Public Technologies 02 Nov 2021
Families are scavenging for survival and many are living only on the food assistance they receive," said Menghestab Haile, WFP Regional Director, Southern Africa ... Many of them are too weak to laugh or cry, let alone play and learn," said Anna Horner, WFP's Chief of Nutrition Innovative Financing, who recently visited Southern Madagascar.
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WFP Burundi Country Brief, September 2021

Reliefweb 02 Nov 2021
WFP provided food and nutritional assistance to 51,042 refugees (22,458 males, 28,584 females, 13,781 children aged 0-59 months and 2,042 people aged over 60 years) with the distribution of 295 mt of in-kind food and USD 348,563 in cash-based transfers (CBT) ... WFP provided food and ...
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Elon Musk Calls Out World Food Program (WFP) on "The Wealthy Could Help"

Bitchute 01 Nov 2021
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Musk mocks WFP over hunger claim

Gulf Daily News 01 Nov 2021
Billionaire Elon Musk has said that if the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) could prove that $8 billion will solve world hunger, he would sell Tesla stock and donate the proceeds to the cause. “If WFP can describe on this Twitter ...
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