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Food Assistance Update

As of 03 January, dispatch of the eighth round of relief food has reached 83 per cent completion including 49 per cent dispatched to areas covered by the NGO consortium Joint Emergency Operation (JEOP), 93 per cent through WFP’s Hubs-and-Spokes programme in the Somali Region and 100 per cent to areas covered by the Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Sector (DRMFSS). A ninth round of relief food assistance is planned for January 2012 to cover the gap between the expiration of the revised 2011 Humanitarian Requirement Document (HRD) and the 2012 HRD expected to be issued on 18 January 2012. For more information, contact: wfp.addisababa@wfp.org