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...billion this year to buy food and distribute it to more than 70 million people worldwide. By late March, however, high food and fuel prices meant that those same planned operations were expected to cost an extra $500 million. Just one month later, says WFP executive director Josette Sheeran, the funding gap has now widened to $755 million. And that's before factoring in new programs that the WFP would like to launch, boosting aid in new places where food shortages suddenly loom. "I think that with what we're facing, all over Africa, cuts are on the way," says...
...That could mean a number of things. "These are very heartbreaking kinds of decisions to make," Sheeran told reporters in London on Tuesday, in between meetings with U.K. officials. Already the WFP has started reducing the amount of food given in rations to many of the 20 million children it feeds in schools. Rations in Darfur where the WFP feeds millions of displaced people were cut this month after bandits attacked trucks delivering them and killed the drivers. But the very last service that the WFP would cut, Sheeran says, is in rations for pregnant and nursing mothers...
...This is leading to a new face of hunger in the world.' JOSETTE SHEERAN, head of the U.N. World Food Program, warning that the global rise in basic-food prices could continue until 2010. Food riots have broken out in Morocco, Yemen, Mexico, Senegal and Uzbekistan...
...JOSETTE SHEERAN, head of the U.N. World Food Programme, warning that the global rise in basic food prices could continue until 2010. Food riots have broken out in Morocco, Yemen, Mexico, Senegal and Uzbekistan...
...confrontation, Seton Hall announced that Governor Christine Todd Whitman would be prohibited from receiving a public service award on the campus due to her support for a woman's right to choose. "No public recognition is given to those espousing positions contrary to our Catholic mission," said Monsignor Robert Sheeran, president of Seton Hall...