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UN FAO Pledges $70 Million to Help Sudan Families

Michael Atit

   KHARTOUM, SUDAN - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
   (FAO) has pledged $70 million to support 600,000 Sudanese families
   affected by severe flooding caused by record heavy rainfall this year.

   The FAO's director of emergency response, Dominique Burgeon, told the
   agriculture ministry Wednesday in Khartoum that a joint assessment
   conducted by the FAO and the transitional government found more than 2
   million hectares of farmland have been affected by floods, putting many
   Sudanese families at risk of dire food shortages.

   Small-scale farmers, who were already on the verge of food insecurity,
   also saw more than 100,000 head of livestock destroyed in the floods,
   according to Burgeon.

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