Africa: UN Rushing Aid to 1.5 Million Flood Victims

UN News Service (New York)

19 September 2007
Posted to the web 19 September 2007

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) teams are fanning out across a wide arc of sub-Saharan Africa, from Mauritania in the west to Kenya in the east, bringing in helicopters and boats where necessary to help an estimated 1.5 million people hit by some of the worst floods in decades.

"Funds, especially cash, are urgently needed," WFP said today in its latest update on the situation. Just yesterday, the agency appealed for nearly $65 million to feed 300,000 flood victims as well as refugees and other displaced people in Uganda for the next six months.

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