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WFP facing cereal shortage

[Kenya] Opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, 6 November 2006. Siegfried Modola/IRIN
The opening of the climate conference in Nairobi on Monday.
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    The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is facing a shortage of cereal rations and intends to prioritise distribution to Ndusu, Gatonde, Cyabingo and Nyarotovu communes, according to a report received by IRIN. “Attempts will be made to continue providing full rations to people in those areas. Half-rations will be distributed in Nyamugali and Nyamutera,” WFP-Kigali said. Humanitarian agencies and NGOs in Rwanda have expressed concern that the caloric intake of the displaced population is being adversely affected by the shortage of rations, and say people at Mataba in Ndusi have been severely neglected in recent weeks. Until a proposed food distribution last week people in the area had not received assistance since the beginning of May, according to IRIN sources.

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