Since the recent upsurge in conflict, WFP has shifted hundreds of tons of food into Gaza, where warehouses hold enough to feed 265,000 people for two months. But security concerns make distributions difficult and there are fears of a food emergency in coming months.

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WFP is urging countries to step up and allocate to urgent hunger needs a fraction of what is proposed for financial rescue packages to address the global economic downturn.

Until recently, Dungu was one of the war-ravaged corners of the country that simply had to fend for itself. Relief arrived with the start of a WFP food distribution scheme.

Responding to a government request, WFP has launched an operation to assist 30,000 people affected by flooding and by avalanches that followed the eruption of a volcano.