WFP urgently needs $45m for Iraq

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) UNWorld food program (WFP)urgently requires $45 million (54 billion Iraqi dinars) to continue its Emergency Operation in Iraq until June.

Elisabeth Byrs, WFP Senior Communications Officer , Geneva Spokesperson told a press briefing that the humanitarian situation in the cities of Samarra in Salah al-Din and Al-Baghdadi in Anbar is worsening.

WFP is sending 3,000 ready-to-eat-food rations, enough to feed 15,000 people for three days, to the besieged city of Al-Baghdadi in Anbar governorate, due to arrive on March 15, she revealed. Logistics teams on the ground have identified a safe route through Kerbala to reach Al-Baghdadi. /End/