WFP distributes food in northern Iraq

9/28/2016 8:00:02 AM

(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM))

BAGHDAD, 28th September, 2016 (WAM) -- For the first time in more than two years, the World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed urgently-needed food for people in and around the northern Iraqi town of Shirqat, 80 kilometres south of Mosul.

Until this month, the town was under siege and cut off from humanitarian access since 2014. Through its local partner Muslim Aid, WFP distributed a one-month supply of food which includes rice, lentils, wheat flour, bulgur wheat, beans and vegetable oil for families in the Khadhraniya area of Shirqat.

"Families in Shirqat are in a desperate need of humanitarian support after being cut off from the outside world for more than two years," said Sally Haydock, WFP Country Director in Iraq.

More than 3 million Iraqis have been displaced by conflict since mid-June 2014. In response, WFP has provided food assistance to more than 1 million vulnerable, displaced Iraqis across all 18 governorates.

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