David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), addresses a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, May 15, 2017. The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR and the World Food Program (WFP) on Monday vowed to jointly step up support for desperate refugees fleeing South Sudan. In an updated response plan presented here in Geneva on Monday, the two agencies said that they were seeking 1.4 billion U.S. dollars to provide life-saving aid to South Sudanese refugees in the six neighboring countries until the end of 2017. (Xinhua/Xu Jinquan)
