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August 1, 2009

Funding shortage could ground U.N. Humanitarian Flights
Flights to Chad, where 4,000 humanitarian workers fly regularly to help refugees from Darfur and internally displaced Chadians, could be grounded as early as Aug. 15, the World Food Program said Friday. The flights need $6.7 million to stay aloft until the end of the year.

"How will WFP reach the hungry?" Pierre Carrasse, the U.N. agency's Aviation Branch Chief said. "How will doctors reach their patients?" UN flights are the lifeline to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in Chad, Sudan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, the Central African Republic, West Africa and Afghanistan.
 
 
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