Despite urgent appeals United Nations agencies
are facing a huge shortfall in funding to help well over a million flood
victims across a wide swath of sub-Saharan Africa, from Ghana in the West
to Ethiopia in the east, as they face food shortages, loss of crops and
even the dangers of landmines from recent conflicts dislodged by the raging
waters.
Of nearly $85 million sought recently
for just Uganda and Sudan, only about $1 million has been forthcoming.
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) voiced
deep concern over the situation of some 300,000 people in northern Uganda,
