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World Food Program announces the need for $ 45 million to fund emergency operations in Iraq
3/14/15
Tomorrow Press / Baghdad: World Food Programme announced, for the urgent need for about $ 45 million to continue its emergency operation in Iraq until next June.
She explained, director of the Information Office of the program Elizabeth Byers told a news conference that "the humanitarian situation in the cities of Samarra in Salahuddin province and al-Baghdadi in Anbar province is getting worse and now thousands of people in dire need of basic humanitarian assistance such as food, clean water and medicine."
She said Byers, "The reports from Salahuddin province, indicating that more people were still arriving in Samarra because of the ongoing military operations and was a city-Baghdadi in Anbar province and other areas under siege for weeks with thousands of Iraqis who are suffering from a lack of basics necessary." .
She noted that "WFP was able to distribute three thousand meal ready to eat enough to feed 15 thousand people for three days in the besieged city of al-Baghdadi."
And stated that "fighting in Tikrit make people flee from there, but the program respond to the crisis sent shares of food to Samarra and Tuz in Salahuddin province, enough to feed 50 thousand for three days, in addition to other emergency supplies and other humanitarian agencies for the purposes".
And confirmed readiness of the World Food Program to deal with the influx of people fleeing the fighting in Tikrit, noting that its stores in Baghdad still have enough food to feed 75 thousand people, but for three days only.
In Baghdad, Byers pointed to "a program to distribute food enough to feed three thousand people displaced families from Tikrit and al-Baghdadi, who were able to move to the Iraqi capital."
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