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5 October 2006

EUROPEAN COMMISSION DONATION HELPS SUSTAIN WFP OPERATIONS IN DARFUR

KHARTOUM – The United Nations World Food Programme mission in Darfur has received a welcome boost with two significant donations from the European Commission: €26 million for WFP’s emergency relief operations and €2 million for the Humanitarian Air Service (WFPHAS), which transports both WFP and other humanitarian staff to areas which are inaccessible by road.

“This generous contribution will have a direct impact on the well-being of the people we’re trying to help in Darfur,” said Kenro Oshidari, WFP’s Representative in Sudan. “With these funds, we can replenish our food stocks and keep WFPHAS helicopters and aircraft flying, so that all those engaged in providing humanitarian assistance can reach remote parts of Darfur that would otherwise be cut off.”

This donation brings the EC’s total contribution to WFP Sudan to €71.9 million in 2006 – a 60 percent increase over its 2005 contribution.

“The EC’s commitment to WFP has grown in response to the increasingly urgent needs of the people of Darfur. We’re currently feeding nearly 2.7 million people, thanks in great part to the generosity of the Europeans,” Oshidari said.

Earlier this week, EC President José Manuel Barroso and Louis Michel, Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid visited the region, travelling to the town of El Fasher in North Darfur, where some of the most inaccessible areas are located.

Barroso visited WFP’s warehouse, where he watched – and personally assisted – with the unloading of trucks carrying sugar, part of a recent shipment of European food aid. Commissioner Michel expressed his deep concern for the people of Darfur, many of whom have been cut off from food aid.

In August, WFP fed a total 2.6 million people in Darfur, but was unable to reach a further 355,000 people – mostly in North Darfur – due to ongoing fighting and banditry, which have blocked humanitarian aid.

WFP’s Sudan Emergency operation is budgeted at US$746 million in 2006, with Darfur representing 70 percent of that budget. WFP currently has enough food for its beneficiaries until the end of 2006, but unless new donations are made soon, food stocks will begin to run down in January. WFP could face a shortfall between January and March 2007.

WFP calls on the international community to renew its commitment to Sudan. Donors to WFP’s 2006 emergency operation are: the United States (US$378.8 million), carry over from previous operations (US$64 million), the European Commission (US$85.4 million), United Nations Common Humanitarian Fund & CERF (US$32 million), Canada (US$17.4 million), Japan (US$8.4 million), Multilateral donors (US$7.2 million), Australia (US$7 million), Sudan Government of National Unity (US$6.2 million), Libya (US$4.5 million), Germany (US$2.5 million), private donors (US$2.2 million), Italy (US$1.9 million), Ireland (US$1.8 million), Norway (US$1.8 million), Switzerland (US$1.7 million), Denmark (US$1.7 million), New Zealand (US$946,000) France (US$788,000), Belgium (US$604,000), United Kingdom (US$366,000), Luxembourg (US$255,000), Greece (US$251,000).

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Note to editors: Video B-roll on Darfur is available from WFP’s video unit: jonathan.dumont@wfp.org or marco.frattini@wfp.org

A photograph of Mr. Barroso helping to unload a WFP truck in El Fasher can be obtained by contacting WFP’s photo unit: rein.skullerud@wfp.org Tel: 39-06-6513 2687

For more information please contact (email address: firstname.lastname@wfp.org):
Emilia Casella, WFP/Khartoum, Mob. +249 91 217 9190, Tel. +249 183 248 001, ext. 2140.
Simon Crittle, WFP/Khartoum, Mob. +249 91216 7293, Tel +249 183 248 001, ext. 2142.
Peter Smerdon, WFP/Nairobi, Tel. +254 20 622 179, Mob. +254 733 528 911.
Brenda Barton, Deputy Director Communications, WFP/Rome, Tel. +39 06 65132602, Mob. +39 3472582217
Christiane Berthiaume, WFP/Geneva, Tel. +41 22 917 8564, Mob. +41 79 285 7302
Cecile Sportis, WFP/Paris, Tel. + 33 1 70385330, Mob. +33 6161 68266
Gregory Barrow, WFP/London, Tel. +44 20 72409001, Mob. +44 7968 008474.
Ellen Gustafson, WFP/New York, Tel. +1 917 367 5070, gustafsone@un.org
Jennifer Parmelee, WFP/Washington, Tel. +1-202-6530010 ext. 1149, Mob. +1-202-4223383