{"id":68266,"date":"2016-04-18T13:19:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T11:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/italy-contributes-e1-million-to-help-wfp-support-conflict-affected-people-in-libya\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T11:19:29","slug":"italy-contributes-e1-million-to-help-wfp-support-conflict-affected-people-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/italy-contributes-e1-million-to-help-wfp-support-conflict-affected-people-in-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy contributes \u20ac1 million to help WFP support conflict-affected people in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> NEW YORK, United States of America, April 18, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of \u20ac1 million from the Government of Italy to provide much-needed food assistance for vulnerable people affected by the ongoing conflict in Libya.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>This timely contribution will allow WFP to provide family food rations for more than 80,000 people in Libya for one month. Each ration is large enough to feed a family of five people for one month and contains basic food items such as rice, pasta, chickpeas, wheat flour, vegetable oil, tomato paste and sugar.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>\u201cWFP is very grateful to the Government of Italy for its commitment to support affected households and communities across Libya,\u201d said Carlo Scaramella WFP Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and Eastern Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>In 2016, WFP plans to assist up to 210,000 of the most vulnerable people in Libya with life-saving food assistance, including displaced Libyans, host communities, and registered refugees and asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>\u201cThe conflict in Libya continues to cause large population displacements in the country and is consequently increasing humanitarian needs,\u201d said Wagdi Othman, WFP Country Director for Libya.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Alongside Italy\u2019s support, WFP is grateful to other donors including the UN CERF, Canada and all those who contribute flexible funds. However, to continue its life-saving food assistance to tens of thousands of Libyans in desperate need until the end of the year, WFP immediately requires US$15.4 million. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, United States of America, April 18, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of \u20ac1 million from the Government of Italy to provide much-needed food assistance for vulnerable people affected by the ongoing conflict in Libya. This timely contribution will allow WFP to provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-68266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}