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A vital weapon in the U.S.'s arsenal enduring stockpile is food, a peace will offering of food aid combined with sanction suspensions to North Korea. Meanwhile, children of all ages are dying of starvation as both countries battle over political rhetoric.
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An Associated Press investigation reveals thousands of sacks of food aid meant for Somalia's famine victims have been stolen. While it investigates the theft, UN’s World Food Programme says suspending assistance would lead to "many unnecessary deaths."
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An eyewitness humanitarian worker has rejected a claim that aid agency funds were misused in Tigray during the Ethiopian famine in 1984–5.
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The Horn of Africa has been struggling with failed crops and severe food shortages for the past decades. Despite food assistance and other aid interventions, the situation has not improved, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) reported.
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The World Food Programme has issued an appeal for more than US$230 million to provide emergency food assistance over the next six months to 3.8 million Kenyans.
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In theory, a hungry nation, particularly a nation ruled by a stubborn man who insists on having his own way in the world, would be a nation agreeable to peace talks.
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The Emir of Qatar has pledged $40 million to United Nations agencies for humanitarian work in Gaza. The secretary general of the UN Ban Ki-moon accepted the contribution aimed at providing relief for civilians suffering in the strife-torn area.
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Global food aid deliveries have sunk to their lowest levels in nearly five decades, with deliveries of wheat and maize facing the sharpest drops.
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The humanitarian situation in Somalia is deteriorating quickly due to soaring food prices, a significantly devalued Somali shilling, and worsening drought, FAO said today.
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The good taste award goes to… Burma’s generals! Yep, those funloving generals are handing out food with their names on it. It’s international aid food, too. Gutsy stuff. They might have worn out their tongues on the labels, as well as the rhetoric.
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Food aid Headlines
 Somali insurgents have shut down food aid distribution by a major humanitarian group because they say the organization is distributing spoiled food in the famine-hit south.
US envoys are meeting North Korean officials in Beijing to finalise details of a food aid deal aimed at halting Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.
Seventeen major food and drink companies firms promise to cut calories in their products to help tackle obesity.
A year of record food prices has forced millions of parents in the developing world to cut back on food for their children, says aid agency Save the Children.
 North Korea accused the U.S. of hostility for suspending an agreement to provide food aid following Pyongyang's widely criticized rocket launch, and warned of retaliatory measures in response.
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