EUROPE/SPAIN - UNICEF Spain report: 500 million Euro needed for people in 33 countries

Wednesday, 31 January 2007

Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Presenting its 2007 report on humanitarian activity Spanish branch of the United Nations Children’s Fund said that to meet the needs of people in difficult situations in 33 countries at least 500 million Euro are necessary.
One fifth of the aid is needed mainly in the Darfur region of Sudan where conflict started in 2003 has caused the death of 4 million people of whom 1.8 million were children. In that devastated part of the globe UNICEF successfully vaccinated 1.3 million children and managed to maintain the same rates of school attendance and nourishment as before the 2004humanitarian emergency.
Other UNICEF priorities this year will include countries in the Horn of Africa, isolated by drought and the recent armed conflict in Somalia, in the Middle East, in the area of the Pacific, southern Asia, and central and eastern Europe.
UNICEF will also intervene in parts of the world affected by less known conflicts, the so-called silent emergencies, for example countries such as Haiti, with the highest infancy morality rate in all Latin America, Eritrea, a country at war and threatened by cyclic famine, or the Central Africa Republic living in situations of instability due to various civil conflicts. (AP) (31/1/2007 Agenzia Fides; Righe:22; Parole:254)


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