Bill Gates, founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is greeted as he arrives at the United Nations World Food Programme press conference as he is joined by Josette Sheeran, center,executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme where he talked about the Purchase for Progress initiative which will aid poor farmers during a press conference a the United Nations on September 24, 2008 in New York City. (UPI Photo/Monika Graff)
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WFP urges more support for Iraqis in Syria
The U.N. World Food Program has announced that it will scale up efforts to provide basic food assistance to the most vulnerable Iraqi refugees in Syria and called on the international community to support its growing operation there.
Somalia releases UN official as Mogadishu toll mounts
Somali authorities released a UN official who had been held for almost a week in Mogadishu, where six people died Tuesday as a result of the latest violence between the government and the insurgency.
Somalia releases UN food agency chief
Somali authorities Tuesday released the local head of the World Food Program (WFP), who was seized nearly a week ago when government forces stormed a UN compound in Mogadishu.
