US to ship 30 million dollars in food aid to Sudan

WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (AFP) — The US Agency for International Development (USAID) approved more than 30 million dollars in emergency food aid for western Sudan’s embattled Darfur region.

USAID said its Office of Food for Peace will donate 31,700 tons of food, including corn-soya blend, sorghum, split peas, lentils and vegetable oil, through the United Nations’ World Food Program.

The US agency has contributed 118,400 tons of food worth more than 110 million dollars to Darfur and an additional 11,400 tons to Sudanese refugees in neighboring Chad.

The United Nations describes the humanitarian crisis in Darfur as currently the world’s worst, with up to 50,000 people dead and more than a million driven from their villages by the fighting between government-backed Arab militias and rebels.

USAID said its Office of Food for Peace will donate 31,700 tons of food, including corn-soya blend, sorghum, split peas, lentils and vegetable oil, through the United Nations’ World Food Program.

The US agency has contributed 118,400 tons of food worth more than 110 million dollars to Darfur and an additional 11,400 tons to Sudanese refugees in neighboring Chad.

The United Nations describes the humanitarian crisis in Darfur as currently the world’s worst, with up to 50,000 people dead and more than a million driven from their villages by the fighting between government-backed Arab militias and rebels.