DRC...Aid Convoy sets out.

BBC NEWS | Africa | Aid convoy sets out in DR Congo

Assessing the global food crisis

"A silent tsunami which knows no borders sweeping the world".

That is how the head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) summed up the global food shortages.

Click here to read the special report.

Irish Aid Centre

Following my visit to the newly opened Irish Aid Centre in Dublin here are a few links for you to have a look at. In particular there is a link looking at the work Irish Aid for World Aids Day and a link to there MDG page.

Irish Aid - Our Work - Overview

Irish Aid / Irish Aid Map

Irish Aid Information Centre

Irish Aid - World Aids Day



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Causes of Africa's food crisis

An official from the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), Nicholas Crawford, and Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, a pan-Africanist and Director of Justice Africa, debate what is causing Africa's deepening food crisis and what the solutions might be.

Read the debate here.

Food Aid - Kenya

Food Aid has arrived at Kenyan port of Mombassa as thousands continue to suffer in the aftermath of the Kenyan election. Read the article here.

More examples of Food Aid

• UN plans Zimbabwe food aid 8 Nov 2001
• Zimbabwe 18 Oct 2001
• Zimbabwe 15 July 2001
• Afghanistan - food aid reaches Jalalabad 7 Nov 2001
• Afghanistan 7 Nov 2001
• Afghanistan 7 0ct 2001
• New fighting in Sudan threatens food aid May 1998

• HungerWeb causes/solutions, research, fieldwork, policy, education, 50 facts on poverty
• Hunger Site
• Oxfam - Cool Planet

Food Aid

World Food Programme website - this has lots of information and examples of Food Aid projects...both for humanitarian reasons and longer-term development aid projects.


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