11.   The U.S. Agency for International Development issues guidelines for commodities used in food relief.

12.   The United Nations World Food Program is gearing up to send in major new shipments of food relief to areas near the frontlines.

13.   Timely outside help can also keep food relief from becoming a new source of ethnic contention.

14.   When compared with the vote-getting potential of more politically profitable tax cuts, food tax relief never generates much political appeal.

15.   Aid workers have warned of mass starvation if large-scale food relief does not reach North Korea soon.

16.   Cognet also said that the Australian involvement in food relief could run for up to five months.

17.   Deputy Prime Minister Kong Chin-tae, during a visit to Hanoi, could not agree on payment terms with Vietnam for shipments of food relief.

18.   Doctors Without Borders mission director Andrew Durrant cautioned Friday that food relief could not come too soon to Karuzi.

19.   Emergency food relief is necessary in many parts of southern Sudan where the war has disrupted farming cycles and made it dangerous for people to work in the fields.

20.   Food relief to one of the worst affected drought-stricken provinces in Papua New Guinea has been suspended after the looting and vandalism of a supply truck.