Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives partners with UN World Food Programme, to support beneficiaries in Palestine, refugees in Jordan, Bangladesh
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DUBAI, 29th April, 2021 (WAM) Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI) today signed an MoU with the United Nations’ World Food Programme to provide direct food support to beneficiaries in Palestine and in refugee camps in Jordan, and Bangladesh .
The MoU officiates the strategic partnership between both entities on the 100 Million Meals campaign, the first humanitarian campaign of its kind in the Arab world to provide food parcels for disadvantaged individuals and families across 30 countries in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America, during the Holy Month of Ramadan.
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GENEVA: Famine threatens southern Madagascar after drought and sandstorms ruined harvests, reducing people to eating locusts and leaves, the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
The lives of children are in danger, especially those under five years old whose malnutrition rates have reached “alarming levels”, Amer Daoudi, senior director of global WFP operations, said by videolink from Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo.
At least 1.35 million people are in need of food assistance in the region, but the WFP is only reaching 750,000 with “half-rations” due to financial constraints, he said.
“Famine looms in southern Madagascar as communities witness an almost total disappearance of food sources which has created a full-blown nutrition emergency,“ Daoudi told a U.N. briefing in Geneva.
(Adds TV, quotes) People have resorted to eating locusts, cactus fruits, leaves Malnutrition among children under fives hits "alarming levels" WFP reaching half of 1.35 mln people in need of food aidBy Stephanie NebehayGENEVA, April 30 (Reuters) - Famine threatens southern Madagascar after drought and sandstorms ruined harvests, reducing people to eating locusts and leaves,
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