THE United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has enlisted two stars of the new film Blood Diamond to help raise awareness of the hunger and poverty that stalk more than 850 million people around the world, the UN News Centre reports.

Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly will feature in a new public service announcement for WFP, which hopes that the film’s scenes depicting aid operations, such as the agency’s feeding of thousands of war victims who fled within Sierra Leone and to neighbouring countries, will provide a strong message.