South Africa: UN food arm spent $11.4m on supplies from SA last year

The World Food Programme (WFP), the food arm of the UN, spent over $11.4 million (R74.1 million) to buy over 47 000 tons of maize and other food materials in South Africa last year. This emerged yesterday at the fourth annual African aid, disaster management and relief procurement conference in Johannesburg. "We buy food to satisfy the needs of the people," Joop Menkeld, the WFP's procurement officer said. Over 14.4 million people are set to be affected by disaster every year.