WFP receives $40 million donation

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May 7, 2007

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a $40 million donation from the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO), to help feed over 2 million people in Darfur.

Kenro Oshidari, Sudan Representative UN World Food Programme (WFP) said this latest donation will help the agency "to purchase and pre-position food assistance in Darfur before the rainy season, which is about to start and will last until October."

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September 25, 2008

Halfway to the Millennium Development Goals

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The following appeared as an op-ed in The Guardian Online on Thursday, September 25th.

This week, over 150 world leaders are gathered at the UN for the opening of the general assembly. If recent years are any indication, news outlets will focus on the disagreements aired on Tuesday, when George Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the podium.

But the real drama occurs today (Thursday), when the same global leaders that butted heads earlier in the week take stock of one of the most far-reaching and noble statements of international cooperation ever agreed upon, the millennium development goals.

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