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UN World Food Program struggles to keep up with mounting conflict and drought

Between drawn-out international conflicts and severe drought, the humanitarian agency has been spread thin.
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Syria. Ethiopia. South Sudan. Yemen. Haiti.

These are just a handful of the 80-odd countries in the world receiving food aid from the United Nations World Food Program.

Between drawn-out international conflicts and severe drought, the humanitarian agency has been spread thin.

Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the World Food Program, is in Ottawa this week to meet with the federal government to discuss its partnership with the agency.

Internally displaced school children eat from a bowl during a feeding program provided by the World Food Program in North Darfur, Sudan, on Nov. 17, 2015. (Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)

This segment was produced by The Current's Julian Uzielli.