UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The United Nation seeks aid for Eritrea and Ethiopia refugees who fled conflict into eastern Sudan, suffering conflict in its western Darfur region.
Having received only just over half of the funding needed for its program in eastern Sudan, the U.N. World Food Program Friday appealed to donors to make up the shortfall as it struggled to feed 90,000 refugees afraid to go home.
WFP said it has been given $9.4 million of the $17.7 million that it requires for the two-year program until March 2006.
"Food distributions to the refugees are in real danger of being scaled down or even interrupted because of the lack of funds and because we are battling to feed more refugees than were expected to remain in Sudan at this time," WFP Sudan Country Director Ramiro Lopes da Silva said.
