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YubaNet  | May 13, 2008

-- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced that its food aid has reached more than 27,000 people in the areas of the Irrawaddy delta hit hardest by Cyclone Nargis, which left a path of death and destruction after striking Myanmar last week. 'In an encouraging development, 28 to...
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