UN allocates $ 84m for neglected emergencies worldwide

New York, 15 Jan – (ANA) - United Nations humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has allocated some $ 84 million to assist people affected by hunger, malnutrition, disease, displacement and conflict in 15 neglected emergencies around the world.

 Humanitarian actors in Somalia received the largest single allocation of some

$ 15 million, followed by some $ 11 million for those working Ethiopia. Agencies

working in Chad will receive $ 8 million, while humanitarian partners in Kenya

will receive $ 6 million to start up programmes for 2011.

 Programmes in the Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic People’s Republic

of Korea (DPRK), Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe have each been allocated some $ 5

million, while programmes to assist people in Burundi, Madagascar, and the

occupied Palestinian territory will receive $ 4 million apiece.

 Humanitarian agencies in Colombia, Djibouti, Iran and Myanmar will each receive

$ 3 million to bolster their emergency programmes, as part of this first round of

allocations for 2011 from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF). (ANA)

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