WFP airdrops food into southern Sudan

The United Nations World Food Programme is flying food aid to remote areas of southern Sudan, where some 1.2 million people do not have enough to eat.

A plane dropped sacks of sorghum near the small town of Pochalla on the Sudan-Ethiopia border in Jonglei State on Tuesday. The World Food Program is planning to distribute some 4-thousand tons of food aid in around 22 localities in the south of Sudan. Most of the food aid will be delivered using roads and in boats and barges on rivers.

Senior U.N. officials have warned that the hunger in southern Sudan may get worse over the next several months.

Men, fleeing a military offensive in South Waziristan, sit in a  queue for handouts under a sign for the United Nations World Food  Programme (WFP) at a food distribution point in Dera Ismail Khan,  located in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province November 9,  2009.REUTERS/Akhta Soomro