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Members of the media stand outside the headquarters of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), in Rome, Friday, Oct. 9, 2020.
Associated Press

World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize for hunger fight

Associated Press driven millions more people The committee also said it objections to international was established in 1961 at
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The to the brink of starvation. hoped that bestowing the cooperation," committee the behest of U.S. President
World Food Program won Announcing the prize, the prize on the U.N. agency chair Berit Reiss-Andersen Dwight Eisenhower and
the Nobel Peace Prize on Norwegian Nobel Commit- would highlight the need to said. "We are sending a sig- has brought aid to multiple
Friday for fighting hunger tee said it wished "to turn strengthen global solidarity nal to this type of national- crises, including Ethiopia’s
and seeking to end its use the eyes of the world to- and cooperation in an era ism where the responsibility famine of 1984, the Asian
as "a weapon of war and wards the millions of peo- of go-it-alone nationalism. for global affairs is not be- tsunami of 2004 and the
conflict" at a time when the ple who suffer from or face "We are sending a signal ing faced." Haiti earthquake of 2010.
coronavirus pandemic has the threat of hunger." to every nation who raises The Rome-based agency Continued on Page 5