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  • The WFP has its own fleet of 160 trucks in Darfur.
  • If the WFP halted operations, more than 2 million people in Darfur could starve.
  • The World Food Programme compound at IDP Camp Otash in Nyala, South Darfur
  • The WFP has its own security unit, which helps it decide if trucks can leave the compound.
  • A six-wheel drive WFP Mercedes Benz truck
  • World Food Programme storehouses in Nyala, South Darfur
  • A World Food Programme warehouse tent in Nyala, South Darfur
  • The capacity of each warehouse (tent) is 46,000 metric tons.
  • In April 2008 the WFP fed 3.1 million people in Sudan, 2.4 million of them in Darfur.
  • Sorghum is a cereal eaten widely in Africa, usually made into a kind of porridge served with stew or lentils.
  • A WFP worker carrying a 110 lb sack of sorghum
  • Loading a truck at the World Food Programme compound at IDP Camp Otash in Nyala, South Darfur
  • Charlie helping to load sorghum onto a WFP truck
  • Refined vegetable oil is mixed in with other foods, such as cereal, beans/lentils, and corn soya blend.
  • A WFP worker carrying a case of vegetable oil
  • Food comes from North America, Europe, parts of Asia, and other parts of Africa.
  • A WFP worker in Nyala, South Darfur
  • Each World Food Programme truck carries approximately 20 metric tons of food.
  • About 1,400 trucks are commercially contracted by the WFP.
  • Charles Annenberg Weingarten behind the wheel of a WFP truck
  • Trucks move an average of 900 metric tons of food per day.
  • On the helicopter flight to the WFP compound in Otash, South Darfur, Sudan
  • Darfur is approximately the size of Texas.
  • In the first four months of 2008, 63 trucks were hijacked and 2 drivers were killed.
  • The World Food Programme was founded in 1962 as an agency of the United Nations (UN).
  • Charles Annenberg Weingarten in a WFP warehouse tent in Nyala, South Darfur
  • Though food is imported from other countries, one-sixth (100,000 metric tons) comes from Sudan, mainly sorghum.
  • World Food Programme food storehouses at IDP Camp Otash in Nyala, South Darfur
  • Vegetable oil donated to the WFP from the US Agency for International Development
  • Most of the WFP staff are Sudanese citizens.
  • Cases of soybean oil at the World Food Programme compound at IDP Camp Otash in Nyala, South Darfur
  • The rise in global food prices is restricting the WFP's capacity to buy enough food.
  • Loading a truck at the World Food Programme compound at IDP Camp Otash in Nyala, South Darfur
  • There is enough food in Sudan, but trucking it from El Obeid (the main hub) into Darfur is problematic.

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Darfur World Food Programme

Sudan
Sudan
Location:
Nyala, Darfur
Date:
April 2008
Grants Awarded:
World Food Program (through Friends of the World Food Program) ($500,000)
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