Sudanese refugees to get highest humanitarian aid

Sudanese refugees to get highest humanitarian aid

New York, US 02/12 - Victims of Sudan`s war-torn Darfur region will receive 1.2 billion dollars worth of humanitarian assistance in 2007, UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland disclosed Friday in New York.Egeland told a news conference that the amount was the single largest sum out of the nearly 4 billion dollars needed in 2007 to address humanitarian emergencies in various parts of the world.The 2007 Humanitarian Appeal was launched Thursday at the UN headquarters by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, with a call to the world`s prosperous nations to donate to that cause.Egeland said as in previous years, most of the 2007 aid targets Africa, in areas such as Sudan, DR Congo, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad and the Republic of Congo, as well as Cote d`Ivoire, Somalia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, the Great Lakes and West Africa regions.He also disclosed that the highest amount of the humanitarian purse has "to go again to Sudan, due to the multiple civil wars that have left millions homeless and hungry".Egeland had recently said about four million people in Darfur region are in need of urgent relief assistance.