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WFP stepping up food deliveries to IDPs

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    With the growing numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) causing mounting concern, the WFP said on Monday that it planned to fly in 325 mt of high-protein biscuits to Asmara by 9 June. Planes would be flying the supplies from Macedonia, Albania and Kenya, with at least one flight a day every day this week, a WFP spokesperson told IRIN. A WFP-chartered Boeing 707 carrying 36 mt of high-protein biscuits and other foods from Skopje, Macedonia, landed in Asmara on Monday. The agency estimates that there are now some 750,000 Eritreans displaced by the fighting. Most of them are from the Gash Barka region, which produces the bulk of Eritrea's grain. The region had already been badly affected by drought before the latest hostilities, but now there appears little chance of saving the next harvest, aid workers said.

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