CNN/Reuters: U.N. forced to cut food aid to Sudan (lack of funds)

[DeepModem Mom]

U.N. forced to cut food aid to Sudan
Donor nations gave only 32 percent of food program's funding needs
Friday, April 28, 2006


U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle of Pittsburgh, center, addresses a rally with post cards for President Bush to plead for aid for Darfur.

GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) -- The United Nations said on Friday it would cut food rations for more than 6 million people in Sudan, half of them in Darfur, because of a severe lack of funds.

Many donor countries appear to have tired of the long-term conflict in Darfur, despite signs that malnutrition is again on the rise among people living in squalid camps, the United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) said.

WFP said it was halving food aid from the minimum daily requirement of 2,100 calories to 1,050 calories as of May.

"This is one of the hardest decisions I have ever made. Haven't the people of Darfur suffered enough? Aren't we adding insult to injury?" WFP Executive Director James Morris said.

"This is a measure we should simply never have to take," said Morris, who heads the world's largest food aid agency, feeding 90 million people worldwide....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/04/28/sudan.aid.reut/index.html

[Mojorabbit]

1. This makes me sick eom

[AlCzervik]

2. so countries are tired of the conflict so the solution is to starve them?

[struggle4progress]

5. UN Bodies Survive US Funding Threats (Jan 06)

by Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS - The United States, a major funder of the United Nations and its myriad agencies, has a longstanding notoriety for exercising its financial clout to threaten U.N. bodies refusing to play ball with Washington.

... Meanwhile, the Bush administration has withheld a total of about 127 million dollars -- a sum duly appropriated by the U.S. Congress -- from the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA). In 2002, Washington cut 34 million dollars; in 2003, 25 million dollars; and in 2004 and 2005, 34 million dollars each ...

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0110-07.htm

There's a lot like this available: the US hasn't been paying its full UN dues for decades.

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3. Many CEOs in this country are willing to help out I bet.

What about that guy that just got a 450 million dollars retirement package. Would he miss a couple of million. Oh, I lost my head for a moment, these are the people that don't give the sweat off their balls.

[seriousstan]

4. What about France, Spain, Germany or the other EUs?

The Rome-based agency had only received $238 million, or 32 percent, of its annual appeal of $746 million for Sudan.
The United States was the largest donor at $188 million, it said, while Italy was the only major European country to contribute so far ($1.2 million).

Where the fuck are the other "united" nations?

There have to be alot of sweaty EU balls out there.

[coffeenap]

6. Exxon Mobil--repay the world for the spoils you have stolen. nt

[Rose Siding]

7. kick

[Festivito]

8. Whole world cannot help half of one percent of itself.

Somehow, I bet we can.

But, instead we cannot get faster delivery on that yacht with the extra two foot length.

[HERVEPA]

9. Rallies tomorrow (Sunday) for Darfur

http://www.savedarfur.org/rally/