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17,000 mt of food needed, WFP says

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    The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has called for urgent assistance from donors to cover an expected shortfall in food aid by September for refugees and displaced people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. WFP’s regional director for West Africa, Arnold Vercken, said on Wednesday that assessments by the agency showed an extra 17,000 mt of food with an estimated value of US $10 million was required to meet the needs of current beneficiaries of its programme in the three countries up to the end of the year. [See separate item titled ‘WEST AFRICA: WFP calls for help to meet shortfall in food aid’]

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