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UN warns that food aid running out for Sudanese refugees in Chad

UN warns that food aid running out for Sudanese refugees in Chad

FOOD aid for more than half a million refugees who have fled from Sudan to Chad will run out next month without extra funding, a World Food Programme official said. "By December, there will be no assistance," Pierre Honnorat, Chad's country director for the U.N. agency, told Reuters. "We are calling for urgent, urgent funding now." More than 540,000 refugees have crossed from Sudan into Chad since war erupted seven months ago between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to the International Organization for Migration. Many have fled from West Darfur, where ethnically driven violence…
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Pakistan posts highest-ever annual inflation; stampedes for food kill 16

Pakistan posts highest-ever annual inflation; stampedes for food kill 16

ASIF SHAHZAD CONSUMER price inflation in Pakistan jumped to a record 35.37% in March from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said, as at least 16 people were killed in stampedes for food aid. The March inflation number eclipsed February's 31.5%, the bureau said, as food, beverage and transport prices surged up to 50% year-on-year. Thousands of people have gathered at flour distribution centres set up across the country, some as part of a government-backed programme to ease the impact of inflation. At least 16 people, including five women and three children, have been killed in stampedes at such centres in recent…
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Part of aid convoy arrives in Ethiopia’s Tigray region’s capital

Part of aid convoy arrives in Ethiopia’s Tigray region’s capital

TWENTY trucks carrying food aid entered territory controlled by Ethiopia's rebellious Tigrayan forces the United Nations said, the first small but concrete demonstration that a unilateral truce the government declared last week has improved aid access. It is unclear how much more aid might follow or how quickly. More than 90% of the 5.5 million people in the northern province of Tigray need food aid, according to the United Nations. World Food Programme Ethiopia, a U.N. agency, said on Twitter that 13 of these trucks had arrived safely in Tigray's capital Mekelle and that more of them and fuel were…
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Zimbabwe bans maize imports, expects big harvest

Zimbabwe bans maize imports, expects big harvest

ZIMBABWE has banned maize imports with immediate effect, the country's agricultural marketing authority said yesterday, citing an expected big harvest of the staple crop this year. The southern African nation spent $300 million in scarce foreign currency importing maize last year after successive droughts that left more than half the population in need of food aid. Farmers in Zimbabwe have started harvesting this year's crop, which is expected to come in at 2.7 million tonnes after higher than normal rainfall. That is three times last year's output and more than annual consumption. "The Agricultural Marketing Authority will no longer be…
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