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  • WFP Emergency Report No. 5 of 2005

    ReliefWeb
    Jan 28 2005

    http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID /HMYT-693SJL?OpenDocument

    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 (www.wfp.org),
    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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