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    Aid Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya

    Burma gives green light to resume food aid to Rakhine, says UN

    Burmese authorities have agreed to allow the United Nations to resume distribution of food in northern Rakhine State which was suspended for two months, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.

    Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya

    Arakan aid curbs taking ‘terrible toll’ on children: UNICEF

    Unrest in the Muslim-majority north of Arakan State is taking a “terrible toll” on children, the UN children’s agency said as it called for full access to the region.

    Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya

    Govt allows food aid to Arakan to resume

    Burma is allowing the first food deliveries for more than four weeks to the troubled north of Arakan State, amid an ongoing military lockdown of the area.

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    Lead Story News

    Interview: Breaking the cycle of malnutrition in Burma

    The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) in Burma is facing a funding shortfall of $51 million to meet all the needs till the end of 2016.

    Irrawaddy Division Lead Story News Society

    Meals on wheels in Henzada

    “I always dreamt about a project to provide food to families at an affordable price, for no profit,” Dr Nanda Win told DVB.

    Aid Kachin Lead Story News

    Kachin IDPs wait for aid as winter sets in

    Thousands of refugees at camps in northern Kachin State are facing food shortages since the state government blocked aid deliveries at the end of October.

    Aid Lead Story Mandalay Division News

    WFP cuts aid to Meikhtila IDPs

    WFP says it has cut its humanitarian aid to displaced persons in Meikhtila. BBC Burmese reports that it will further cut rice rations by 20 percent across the country.

    Development Lead Story News Politics Uncategorized

    Japan announces more aid, loans to Burma

    Coinciding with Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida’s visit to Burma this week, Japan has announced 1.6 billion yen (US$16m) in support for UN programmes in Burma.

    Development Health Lead Story

    UN pledges support in Burma’s fight against malnutrition

    The UN and other international agencies have intensified their involvement in Burma’s fight to eradicate malnutrition. Children are the focus of multi-layered efforts to improve on poor recent figures.

    News Politics

    UN employee stabbed by unidentified assailant in Rangoon

    An American citizen working for the UN’s World Food Programme was reportedly stabbed in neck last week while walking in downtown Rangoon

    Health News

    Kachin IDPs ‘suffering food shortage, disease’

    Report finds evidence that the thousands of Kachin war victims not being supported by the UN are in desperate need of aid

    News Politics

    UN to resume work in northeastern Burma

    Sept 17, 2009 (DVB), A United Nations relief agency is to resume work in the Kokang region of northeastern Burma after fierce fighting last month caused dozens of aid workers[…]

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    WFP assists food crisis victims in Chin state

    Aug 26, 2008 (DVB), The World Food Programme and the United Nations Development Programme have been working on a programme in Chin state to help victims of the food crisis.[…]

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    International relief supplies reach Bogalay

    Jun 10, 2008 (DVB), Residents of Bogalay township, Irrawaddy division, said helicopters sent by the World Food Programme have arrived in town carrying aid supplies for local villagers. A local[…]

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    WFP official claims humanitarian aid is failing to meet needs

    Oct 19, 2007 (DVB), A senior United Nations World Food Programme official has said that at least five million people in Burma are short of food, and urged the Burmese[…]

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