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UN Chief Appeals for Immediate $1 Billion to Rebuild Sudan
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UN says Sudan needs $2.6 billion by the end of 2007 for reconstruction
and development projects





Kofi Annan (File photo)Sudan is asking donors gathered in Oslo,
Norway, for more than two billion dollars in aid to rebuild the south
following 21 years of civil war.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged delegates from 60 nations to
come up with an immediate cash infusion of one billion dollars for
reconstruction in southern Sudan, where the war was mostly fought.

He told donors that money is urgently needed to resettle tens of
thousands of Sudanese refugees who will need basic services such as
clean water, hospitals, and schools.

In January, the Sudanese government and southern rebels signed a final
accord to end the war, which killed an estimated two million people.

The peace deal did not address a separate conflict in Sudan's western
Darfur region.

Some information for this report provided by AP and Reuters.


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