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WFP on Tuesday delivered wheat flour to 30 Gaza bakeries, enabling them to bake bread for civilians who are finding it increasingly difficult to access food.

The Executive Director of WFP condemned the killing, today, by gunmen of one of the agency's staff members in southern Somalia, and urged all parties to the worsening conflict there to protect humanitarian workers.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is responding to growing humanitarian needs in Gaza by distributing bread to families in areas that have been badly hit by the recent upsurge in conflict.

WFP moved 11 truckloads of food into Gaza on Monday as part of efforts to respond to the growing humanitarian needs. Since the recent upsurge in conflict, WFP has delivered some 1,600 tons of food into Gaza,

In the latest expansion of operations in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and its partner Caritas have completed the first round of emergency food distributions to 18,300 displaced people in and around Dungu in Orientale Province.

Facts, figures and the latest updates from WFP's high profile emergencies.

A UN convoy loaded with humanitarian supplies staggered into the town of Dungu on Monday after an 11-day, 700-kilometre, churn through swampy mud into the strife-torn northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

WFP has launched an emergency operation to assist 30,000 people in different parts of the country which have been badly affected by flooding and avalanches caused by the eruption of a volcano.

WFP has teamed up with schools in England, through a campaign called The Really Good School Dinner, to provide nutritious school meals for children in some of the world's poorest countries.

In the context of the continuing insecurity in northeastern Congo, WFP is doing its utmost to bring food assistance to the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the hostilities.

Gety, a small town the Orientale Province, is bursting at the seams after becoming a refuge for thousands of people displaced by fighting between various militias in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

2008 has been one of the most challenging in the World Food Programme's history. The impact of high food prices, followed by the global financial downtown have placed extra strains on WFP's work, and the lives of the almost 100 million people we aim to feed next year.

Eleven choirs in Princeton, New Jersey, have contributed music for a new Christmas CD to help support WFP school meals initiatives in Africa.

Facts, figures and the latest updates from WFP's high profile emergencies.

Some 30,000 people have entered Uganda from the Democratic Republic of Congo since August, fleeing fighting between rebel factions and the government. WFP provides prepared meals when the refugees arrive in Uganda and gives food for families to cook later on.

WFP urged countries to step up and allocate to urgent hunger needs a fraction of what is proposed for financial rescue packages to address the global economic downturn.

WFP today thanked the European Union for providing naval escorts to protect ships loaded with WFP food against piracy, saying the deployment was a longer-term solution that would help save lives in Somalia.

Facts, figures and the latest updates from WFP's high profile emergencies.

With only a few livestock left alive and her one-year-old malnourished twins growing weaker by the day, Mumina Bile Abdi trekked 50 kilometres from her village in Godgod to El-Berde to receive food from WFP in this town on Somalia's border with Ethiopia.

WFP launched on Saturday an air operation to deliver urgently required humanitarian supplies into the northeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where thousands of people have been terrorized by one of Africa's most notorious rebel groups.