MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE 2) Travel restrictions imposed by the United Nations on its personnel following the bombings in Mindanao last week have been lifted, UN World Food Programme country director Stephen Anderson said Monday.

This means that WFP would “resume food distribution today,” he said.

Last Wednesday, the WFP suspended the travel of all its 63 personnel to areas affected by the bombings in Mindanao for a week, a move that put on hold the delivery of food supply—25 kilos of rice, five kilos of dried beans, and five kilos of cooking oil for each family.

The travel ban had threatened to delay the distribution of food to about 340,000 people displaced by the renewed fighting between government forces and Muslim rebels.

Fighting resumed August 2008 after years of relative peace when the ceasefire was enforced. Hostilities were triggered by the Supreme Court order stopping the signing of an agreement that would give Moros the chance to expand their area of autonomy.

The military and police declared a heightened state of alert in the entire south after the deadly bombings in the city of Cotabato last Sunday and on the island of Jolo and the city of Iligan on last Tuesday.

The authorities blamed the Cotabato and Iligan bombings on the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Jolo explosion on the Abu Sayyaf, an Al-Qaeda-linked group.