JUBA, South Sudan (AFP) — The UN World Food Programme will suspend food aid to over 100,000 displaced people in South Sudan, as funding shortages force the agency to make “painful decisions”, it said Monday. The cuts will start next month and last until January, affecting 106,000 people living in the capital Juba as well as Bor South county and the town of Wau, WFP said, warning of further reductions unless funding was increased. […]
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Zambian Stampede blamed on extreme hunger; Organizers Vow to Continue Food Aid
(Eagle News Sevice, Africa Bureau) —Zambia’s United Party for National Development leader Hakainde Hichilema said he is attributing the stampede that occurred at the Olympic Youth Development Center on Monday morning (March 6) to high levels of poverty and hunger in the country. Hichilema said that what happened at the OYDC was a clear indication of the extreme hunger suffered by the Zambian people. “It is with a heavy heart that we wish to […]





