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Jan 28 2005
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WFP Emergency Report No. 5 of 2005
This report includes:
(A) Headlines
(B) Middle East, Central Asia and Eastern Europe: (1) Armenia
(C) Eastern & Central Africa: (1) Burundi (2) Congo, DR (3) Eritrea
(4) Ethiopia (5) Kenya (6) Rwanda (7) Somalia (8) Sudan (9) Tanzania
(10) Uganda
(D) West Africa: (1) Chad (2) Cote d’Ivoire (3) Guinea (4) Liberia
(5) Mauritania
(E) Southern Africa: (1) Regional (2) Angola (3) Lesotho (4) Malawi
(5) Mozambique (6) Namibia (7) Swaziland (8) Zambia (9) Zimbabwe
(F) Asia: (1) Regional: Asia Tsunami (2) Bangladesh (3) Indonesia (4)
Korea (DPR) (5) Maldives (6) Myanmar (7) Sri Lanka (8) Thailand
(G) Latin America and Caribbean: (1) Guyana flood emergency (2)
Bolivia (3) Colombia (4) Cuba (5) Ecuador (6) Guatemala (7) Haiti (8)
Nicaragua
>From David Kaatrud, Chief of the Analysis, Assessment and
Preparedness Service of the United Nations World Food Programme
(ODA); available on the Internet on the WFP Home Page (),
or by e-mail from [email protected], Chief of the Emergency
Preparedness and Response Branch (ODAP). For information on
resources, donors are requested to contact [email protected]
at WFP Rome, telephone +39 06 6513 2009. Media queries should be
directed to [email protected], telephone +39 06 6513 2602. The
address of WFP is Via Cesare Giulio Viola 68, Parco dei Medici, 00148
Rome, Italy.
(A) Headlines
(a) As a major player in the UN relief effort in the Indian Ocean
region, WFP is appealing to governments for USD 256 million to feed
one-and-a-half million people.
(b) In Indonesia, the humanitarian community has begun planning a
six-month sea, land and air operation to deliver 15,000 tons of
relief aid per month to an estimated 750,000 internally displaced
persons.
(c) In Sri Lanka, one month after the tsunami, the humanitarian
situation has stabilized – immediate humanitarian needs have
generally been met in all sectors.
(d) During the past week, WFP continued to distribute food to over
two million drought-affected people in Kenya.
(e) An outbreak of cholera in Bujumbura, Burundi has killed at least
five people and infected another 105 in the past two weeks.
(f) The Government of Angola has banned the entry of GM grain into
the country unless prior authorization is given by the Minister of
Agriculture.
(g) Despite the good harvest in Ethiopia, some 2.2 million people
will require emergency food assistance in 2005.
(h) The security situation remains tense in the Darfurs after several
violent incidents in West and South Darfur.
(i) In the Democratic Republic of Congo, various armed factions
continued to prey on farmers in eastern DRC, with kidnappings and
rape widespread, and food security adversely affected.
(j) Nearly 300,000 refugees, IDPs, and ex-combatants are expected to
resettle in the interior parts of Liberia.
(k) WFP urgently needs USD 180 million to feed to 4.9 million
families vulnerable to food insecurity and HIV/AIDS in Lesotho,
Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe in 2005.
(B) Middle East, Central Asia and Eastern Europe: (1) Armenia
(1) Armenia
(a) On January 26 WFP announced a USD 135,600 donation from Greece
for food assistance to 110,000 impoverished Armenians. Funding
shortfalls had forced WFP to temporarily cut off food aid to 30,000
vulnerable Armenians in the autumn of 2004.
(b) WFP’s current PRRO in Armenia began halfway through 2004, and
includes relief distribution; school feeding and food for training
programs; rehabilitation and reconstruction; and building community
assets such as irrigation and drinking water networks, schools,
kindergartens and hospitals through food for work.
(c) The PRRO targets a total of 110,000 people per year in the
capital Yerevan, as well as four provinces, including Gegharkunik,
Lori, Shirak and Tavush. WFP’s total costs in Armenia for the current
operation are USD 11.5 million, including the 21,660 tons of food.
WFP faces a shortfall of USD 6.7 million through June 2006.
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