Croatia to host huge breakfast marking World Food Day

ZAGREB, Oct 16 (AFP) - The Croatian government said Thursday it would host a mass breakfast this weekend for thousands of people at 200 locations across the country to mark World Food Day.

Officials said they hoped the country would earn a place in the Guinness Book of Records by surpassing the 23,291 people who took part in a similar event in Taiwan two years ago.

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The breakfast, consisting of polenta, yogurt and apples, will be held at main squares, primary schools, pensioners' homes, kindergartens and army barracks.

In the capital of Zagreb some 3,500 people are expected to gather at the Ban Josip Jelacic square.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned Thursday that donations from the international community are failing to keep pace with the needs of the world's hungry, estimated at some 800 million people.

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