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The Independent Inquiry Committee into the Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme (IIC) is ‎collecting and examining information relating to the administration and management of ‎the Oil-for-Food Programme, including allegations of fraud and corruption on the part of ‎United Nations officials, personnel and agents, as well as contractors, including entities ‎that have entered into contracts with the United Nations or with Iraq under the ‎Programme.

Interactive Hunger Map

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Niger is ranked the poorest country in the world and has suffered years of neglect by the outside world.

Niger food aid 'no longer needed'

Huh ?

Niger's prime minister says he agrees with UN plans to end large-scale food aid, which he described as an affront to the country's dignity.


According to WFP website : WFP’s operation in Niger remains only 58 percent funded, with US$23 million of the $57.6 million appeal still urgently required. As of 5 September, US$33.5 million had been confirmed.

Niamey, Niger, 15 September 2005 - With the harvest still several weeks away in most areas of Niger, WFP is ready to start a second round of food aid distributions that will target the people most in need of assistance across the country.

Dynamics & Thermodynamics

Although we cannot say at present whether more or fewer hurricane will occur in the future with global warming, the hurricanes that do occur near the end of the 21st century are expected to be stronger and have significantly more intense rainfall than under present day climate conditions.

Katrina was the most feared of all meteorological events, a major hurricane making landfall in a highly-populated low-lying region. In the wake of this devastation, many have questioned whether global warming may have contributed to this disaster. Could New Orleans be the first major U.S. city ravaged by human-caused climate change ?

Hunger

On average more than 40 young children have been dying a day in one area surveyed in the east of the country.



"If they pledged the same amount every year to a permanent emergency fund at the UN, preventable crises like Niger and southern Africa would not happen."

Food aid is urgently needed for Mali, where the same famine that struck neighbouring Niger is intensifying, the United Nations emergency food agency warns.

Tens of millions of Africans will continue to go hungry over the next 20 years unless major changes in trade and aid policies are enacted, a report forecasts.

Yes! I would like to help feed people in Niger

Niger food aid is 'misdirected' (...) Thousands have probably died of hunger in recent months