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Positive donor response to food SOS, WFP says

    ABIDJAN

    The World Food Programme (WFP) has had a “positive response” from four donors to an appeal it issued one month ago for help to avoid a breakdown in its regional food pipeline, WFP told IRIN in Abidjan on Friday.

    The European Union, Italy, Luxembourg and the United States have donated an undisclosed amount of money and food commodities to WFP for refugees and displaced persons in Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

    Regional Director Arnold Vercken had said in June that an extra 17,000 mt of food estimated at US $10 million was required to meet the needs of about one million people in the four countries up to the end of the year.
    “The food pipeline until December is solid,” a source told IRIN.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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