One of the freighters has been chartered by the UN World Food Programme to bring in food aid, which is the biggest earner for local transport contractors.
This week, the head of the UN World Food Programme in Syria, which feeds 2.5 million people every month, told me about a trip he has just done from Damascus to Aleppo.
UN's World Food Programme reckons that 3m-4m people will need food aid this year.
The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) says the present drought is the worst there since 1984.
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The UN's World Food Programme said its head, Josette Sheeran, is expected to visit the border later on Tuesday.
By October 2008 the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) had reached 1.1m people, exceeding the 920, 000 it originally envisaged.
In March, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) reported that levels of food insecurity in Yemen had doubled since 2009.
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The UN's World Food Programme has warned that the violence is disrupting its efforts to get food to the poorest rural areas.
UN's World Food Programme to alleviate hunger in the North.
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Mass hunger looms: the UN's World Food Programme reckons that, in the new year, it must provide food for 5.5m in a population that has shrunk, through disease and emigration, from about 12m probably to less than 9m.
There are dozens of experienced local aid organisations already working throughout Somalia - a fact that often gets lost in the furore over al-Shabab's hostile attitude towards some of the bigger international organisations, like the UN's World Food Programme.
Just as this correspondent was about to visit southern Somalia with people from the UN's World Food Programme, the trip was cancelled when two of the agency's workers were shot dead and a third died on an airstrip waiting for medical help.
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UN's World Food Programme had to stay silent about the famine death toll in the mid-1990s if it wanted to stay on to help the survivors, even as Kim Jong Il, the North's current tormentor, was ordering in not just pizzas, but special pizza chefs, special ovens and the finest ingredients to tickle his palate.
Meanwhile in Iraq, the delegates are being briefed by UN humanitarian and other relief organisations such as the World Food Programme, World Health Organisation, UNICEF and UNHCR, before splitting-up on the last day.
But once the war is over, the World Food Programme, a Rome-based UN agency, will take over.
The World Food Programme warns that the policy could risk the official UN food aid programme - Operation Lifeline Sudan, which has been distributing food around Sudan for the last ten years.
After tapping into an unfulfilled passion for international public affairs, her resolved confidence and managerial talent put her at the head of the World Food Programme, and then in 2008, into a position as a senior manager at the UN.
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