500,000 Libyans fed by UN food organisation

By IANS/AKI,

Rome : The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed 6,000 tonnes of emergency food aid to over 500,000 people in conflict-hit Libya over the past four months, a statement said.

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Working with other humanitarian organisations, such as the Libyan Red Crescent, the WFP has fed 543,000 people – 282,000 people in eastern Libya, and 261,000 in western Libya, the Rome-based organisation said.

WFP had earlier announced an initiative to feed 1.06 million people in North Africa where uprisings toppled governments in Egypt and Tunisia and sparked a civil war in Libya.