food programmes

UN Urges Aid To Avert Cholera-Induced Famine In Yemen

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International donors must step up to prevent a cholera epidemic in war-torn Yemen from producing full-blown famine among hundreds of thousands of people, a UN official said Tuesday. More than 313,000 suspected cases and 1,732 deaths are attributable to the outbreak since it erupted in April, said Jamie McGoldrick, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Yemen. … Read more

We’ll Replace Food Imports With ‘Planting For Food and Jobs’ Campaign — Afriyie Akoto

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The government will, by April this year, launch an audacious campaign to turn farmlands and backyards into a huge food basket that is expected to cut down the country’s food import bill drastically. Modelled on the highly successful “Operation Feed Yourself (OFY)” programme of the 1970s, the initiative, dubbed: “Planting for food and jobs”, is … Read more