United Nations World Food Programme

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Millions around the world are already relying heavily on food aid to survive, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned.

David Beasley, head of the (WFP), said urgent action was needed to avoid a worldwide catastrophe.

The report estimates that the number of people starving could almost double - from 135 million to more than 250 million.

For the first time in a decade, the number of people suffering hunger is back on the rise, according to Arif Husain, chief economist of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), who told daily Hürriyet that the main reason for the dire situation is conflicts.

Humanitarian disaster is looming in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah, an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stronghold under siege by security forces, where tens of thousands of people face food shortages, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on March 8. 

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has declared itself "extremely concerned" by photographs showing its food parcels being handed out in Syria with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) logos on them.
   
Images circulating on social media show food being distributed from cardboard boxes with "Islamic State in Syria" labels pasted over the WFP logo.
   

The six Bulgarian aid workers, who were held captive in Sudan since January 26, have been released.

The six Bulgarian citizens were detained by Sudanese rebels after their helicopter made an emergency landing.

The six Bulgarians working for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), who were captured by Sudanese insurgents on Monday, have still not been released.

Their release was expected on Thursday or Friday at the latest, but at present they still remain captured, private NOVA TV station reports.

It is expected that the six Bulgarian citizens that had been captured by insurgents in Sudan should be released on Thursday or Friday at the latest.

This was announced by Georgi Spasov, the chairman of the board of directors of Heli Air, the airline company of which the captured Bulgarians are employees, in an interview for private NOVA TV station on Thursday.

Six Bulgarian citizens were captured by members of the ''Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North" (SPLM-North) on Monday.

The incident happened when a helicopter owned by a Bulgarian airline company had to make an emergency landing at the city of Kadugli.