Showing posts with label UN aid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UN aid. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

When it Rains it Pours

Lack of funding for the UN's World Food Program (WFP) and a poor harvest are threatening severe food shortages in Mozambique, warns the UN. After a season of half the average rainfall, heavy rains have poured in this week causing floods, killing 25 people and leaving thousands homeless.

Worsening the impact of the rain, central provinces have seen an influx of crop-destroying locusts in the past few days.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Unaided

UN aid has been suspended after Israeli fire hit a UN convoy and killed two fork-lift operators with the UN.  Operations will continue once Israel can guarantee security, says the UN.