Donors to allocate $4.4 bln for repatriation of Sudanese refugees
Oct 6, 2005 (KHARTOUM) — A UN top official on Thursday announced that donor countries had promised to allocate 4.4billion US dollars for a 2006-plan supporting voluntary repatriation of Sudanese refugees and displaced people.
Addressing a donor conference held in Khartoum, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan Manuel Aranda Da Silva said that top priorities of the donors are arranging humanitarian operations extended to the war-affected areas of Sudan.
He said that the 2006-plan will be launched as early as from November in order to recreate the entity of the affected areas, hoping that solving disputes in Sudan’s western and eastern regions will help to create a better situation for carrying out the humanitarian operations.
Meanwhile, Sudanese First-Vice President and president of the southern region Salva Kiir Mayardit pledged that the central government of national unity and his local government in the south would support the voluntary return of the displaced Sudanese.
He called on the donors to adopt quick actions to provide humanitarian assistance for the development and reconstruction as well as housing for the returned refugees and displaced Sudanese.
Kiir also demanded the international community and the donors to achieve their pledges to support his government in the south by providing necessary services to the returned people.
(Xinhua)