What WFP Is Doing To Prevent Disaster In South Sudan
WFP and partners have been working flat-out for months to try to prevent a hunger catastrophe in South Sudan, overcoming enormous obstacles to bring food and other assistance to people in desperate need who have been isolated by conflict. Facts, Videos, Photos and Maps to give you an overview of the situation.
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Military personnel visit a Shi'ite volunteer with the Iraqi Army, lying in a hospital bed after being wounded in clashes with militants of the Islamic state, formerly known as ISIL, in Basra
Military personnel visit a Shi'ite volunteer with the Iraqi Army, lying in a hospital bed after being wounded in clashes with militants of the Islamic state, formerly known as the Islamic state in Iraqi and the Levant (ISIL), in Basra, southeast of Baghdad, August 6, 2014. More than 20 Iraqi soldiers, mostly Shi'ite volunteers wounded in four days of fighting Islamist militants in towns south and west of the capital Baghdad, were being treated in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CRIME LAW CONFLICT MILITARY)
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A French riot police stands guard as migrants wait before a daily food distribution close to the city hall in Calais
A French riot police stands guard as migrants wait before a daily food distribution close to the city hall in Calais, northern France August 5, 2014. Groups of migrants, mostly Sudanese and Eritreans awaiting departure to the United Kingdom, have been fighting for several days in the port of Calais in what resembles a "turf war" between rival migrant groups. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (FRANCE - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POLITICS)
French riot police stand guard as migrants wait before a daily food distribution close to the city hall in Calais
French riot police stand guard as migrants wait before a daily food distribution close to the city hall in Calais, northern France August 5, 2014. Groups of migrants, mostly Sudanese and Eritreans awaiting departure to the United Kingdom, have been fighting for several days in the port of Calais in what resembles a "turf war" between rival migrant groups. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (FRANCE - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POLITICS)
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French riot police stand guard as migrants wait before a daily food distribution close to the city hall in Calais
French riot police stand guard as migrants wait before a daily food distribution close to the city hall in Calais, northern France August 5, 2014. Groups of migrants, mostly Sudanese and Eritreans awaiting departure to the United Kingdom, have been fighting for several days in the port of Calais in what resembles a "turf war" between rival migrant groups. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (FRANCE- Tags - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POLITICS)
French riot police stand guard as migrants queue during a daily food distribution close to the city hall in Calais
French riot police stand guard as migrants queue during a daily food distribution close to the city hall in Calais, northern France August 5, 2014. Groups of migrants, mostly Sudanese and Eritreans awaiting departure to the United Kingdom, have been fighting for several days in the port of Calais in what resembles a "turf war" between rival migrant groups. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (FRANCE- Tags - Tags: SOCIETY POVERTY FOOD CIVIL UNREST IMMIGRATION POLITICS)