The UN World Food Programme has launched an emergency response in Myanmar, where monsoon flooding threatens to push already vulnerable communities further into hunger. The agency has begun distributing fortified biscuits in Laymyethna Township, in the Ayeyarwady region of southwestern Myanmar, after two weeks of heavy rainfall breached river embankments and inundated villages. Rapid assessments by WFP indicate that more than 32,000 people across…
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