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DARFUR: IN DANGER OF CLOSURE, UN
HUMANITARIAN AIR OPERATION GETS REPRIEVE
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UNITED
NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / (Originally
published 28 March 2007)- Thanks
to the infusion of much-needed funds, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
announced today that its critical air transports for aid workers in war-ravaged
Darfur will be operational for an additional month.
Some
8,000 relief workers in Darfur use the Humanitarian Air Service (WFP-HAS)
monthly to provide much-needed food, water and health care services, but WFP
announced last month that it would be grounded by 31 May due to a lack of funds.
With
contributions totalling over $6 million, WFP-HAS will not be able to keep 24
helicopters and airplanes in the air until the end of April.
“Thanks
to the European Commission, Ireland and other donors, humanitarian work in
Darfur and other parts of Sudan will not be interrupted – for the time
being,” said Kenro Oshidari, WFP Representative in Sudan.
He
voiced hope that more donors will step up, noting that $77 million is needed to
keep WFP-HAS, which is vital amid deteriorating security conditions on the
roads, running this year.
The
service also received $500,000 each from the UN Common Humanitarian Fund and Not
On Our Watch, the humanitarian organization founded by actors George Clooney,
Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, producer Jerry Weintraub and civil rights
lawyer David Pressman.
Insecurity
and banditry plague the roads, with WFP announced this week that three drivers
of agency-contracted trucks had recently been murdered in Sudan, making the air
operation more important than ever.
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