The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced yesterday that it had bought 35 926 tonnes of white maize for Zimbabwe from Malawi, about 40 percent of the more than 88 000 tonnes of food it imported from the southern African country to feed five countries.

"Food commodities have been bought from Malawi by WFP for operations in Liberia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe," senior communications officer at the Malawi WFP country

The funds will be made available to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to provide food for needy refugee families in the Gaza Strip, where the humanitarian situation has increasingly worsened over the past few months.

In accordance with a Royal Decree by King Abdulla Bin Abel Aziz Al Saud, the funds were committed by the Saudi Committee for the Relief of the Palestinian People. The Project, to be implemented by UN-HABITAT Special Human Settlements Programme for the Palestinian People, will include the construction and furnishing of the centre, and

Between early September and late November 2007, the Federal Foreign Office is making available children's hygiene

The announcement was made by Moroccan State Secretary at the Foreign Ministry, Ahmed Lakhrif during the Arab congress taking place in Khartoum, according to a statement by the Moroccan embassy in the Sudanese capital.

The heads of the Arab delegations are due to visit Darfour on Wednesday to enquire about the humanitarian situation

We support the Congolese people in their efforts to promote peace and democratic values in the post-transition period. Our assistance helps to consolidate peace through efforts to revitalize the economy, enhance national security, deliver basic services, and strengthen governance and rule of law. In FY07, we provided over $462 million in assistance to the DRC, including $77 million in development, and security assistance, $85 million in humanitarian assistance (including refugee support) and $300 million to support the peace keeping mission.

The meeting was called to address all aspects of a new two-year project known as the "Good Governance for Enhanced Post-War Reconstruction," which is implemented by UN-HABITAT in partnership with the union of municipalities of Tyre, Bint Jbeil and Jabal Aamel, and in cooperation with Beit bil Jnub, the University, and others.

By David I. McKeeby
USINFO Staff Writer

Washington -- When more than 700,000 Palestinians were displaced following the 1948-1949 Arab-Israeli War, the United States was among the first countries to help feed and shelter them, beginning a journey together over the past half-century culminating in the road map for Middle East peace.

Today, "the United States continues to work closely with the Israelis and Palestinians to realize President Bush's vision of two states living side by side in peace and security,"

OVERVIEW

The worst fighting this year since April erupted in Mogadishu during the last weekend of October. The fighting, combined with house-to-house searches, large-scale detentions and statements by officials ordering inhabitants to leave certain districts, forced 90,000 (1) people to flee Mogadishu or move within the city during a three-day period. Almost as many people left the city in three days as in the past four months (roughly 25,000 have been exiting Mogadishu every month since