COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 2 (UPI) -- A U.N. food agency said it shipped 1,000 metric tons of food aid to a safe zone in Sri Lanka, where fighting has displaced more than 100,000 people.

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The U.N. World Food Program said Tuesday one of its staff was gunned down while monitoring a school feeding program in the southern part of Somalia.

MOGADISHU, Somalia, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- With warships from NATO operating off the coast of Somalia, the U.N. World Food Program says crucial aid is successfully reaching the war-ravaged country.

KIVU, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Renewed fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has displaced 200,000 people in the past two months, the United Nations says.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The operator of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken committed $80 million to help feed schoolchildren worldwide, the United Nations said Friday.

KHARTOUM, Sudan, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Food distribution in Darfur would have to be suspended if security in Sudan doesn't improve, the U.N. World Food Program said Monday.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- The U.N. World Food Program said Thursday it was ramping up food assistance to the more than 220,000 people displaced by fighting in the Philippines.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Two cargo planes flew to Tbilisi Wednesday with 34 tons of high-energy biscuits for people displaced by the conflict in Georgia, U.N. officials said.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The United Nations' food program has begun helping more than 2,000 people displaced by the conflict in the South Ossetia region of Georgia, officials said.