In December 2002, TNT's parent company TPG set about testing that idea when it launched a partnership with the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian aid agency.

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The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) says the present drought is the worst there since 1984.

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By October 2008 the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) had reached 1.1m people, exceeding the 920, 000 it originally envisaged.

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The maize comes from the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP), which is banned from operating in territory controlled by al-Shabab.

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United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Somalia spokesman, Peter Smerdon agreed that further naval assistance would be a huge help in the area.

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