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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - U.N. Says Lack of Money Forces Cuts in Food Aid for African Refugees
By Jill Moss 1


Broadcast: Monday, September 19, 2005


This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Development Report.


 
Severely 2 malnourished child in Niger - photo courtesy of UNICEF
Two United Nations agencies have appealed for more money to supply food to refugee camps in Africa. They say they have had to cut food aid to hundreds of thousands of people. Most are in West Africa and the Great Lakes area.


The World Food Program says it needs more than two hundred million dollars for its operations though the end of this year. The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner 3 for Refugees says it will need at least one hundred eighty million.


The two agencies say the cuts have created suffering among those affected 4. Special feeding programs for young children, pregnant women and new mothers have also been reduced.


Forty-four thousand Liberian refugees in Sierra Leone have received less food since May. Four hundred thousand refugees in Tanzania have been affected for almost a year. They have received only two-thirds of their daily needs. The U.N. agencies say the situation there has improved a little now, but more money is needed to prevent future cuts.


In southern Chad, refugees from the Central African Republic have also had their shipments limited.


In Sudan, the World Food Program reported a separate problem: a shortage of airplane fuel at the worst time of year. Aid workers call it the hunger season. The agency says it had to cut in half its emergency food shipments in August to more than one million people in the south. The fuel shortage also affected efforts in the Darfur area in western Sudan.


Also in Africa, there were more warnings last week about the food crisis in Niger. It follows rain shortages and a locust 5 invasion last year. Doctors Without Borders says recent international aid has yet to help some areas that need it most. The medical aid group says tens of thousands of children still require immediate 6 assistance.


The group found that one in five children suffered from malnutrition 7 in the Zinder area in August. It says death rates were higher than when the crisis began in January.


Last week, the World Food Program reported "good progress" in its work in Niger. The aim is to supply food to more than three and one-half million people. But the U.N. agency says its operation remains 8 only fifty-eight percent financed. The next harvest in most of Niger is several weeks away.


This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss.  I'm Shep O'Neal.



n.苔,藓,地衣
  • Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
  • He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。
adv.严格地;严厉地;非常恶劣地
  • He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
  • He is severely put down for his careless work.他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。
n.(政府厅、局、处等部门)专员,长官,委员
  • The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
  • He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
n.蝗虫;洋槐,刺槐
  • A locust is a kind of destructive insect.蝗虫是一种害虫。
  • This illustration shows a vertical section through the locust.本图所示为蝗虫的纵剖面。
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
n.营养不良
  • In Africa, there are a lot of children suffering from severe malnutrition.在非洲有大批严重营养不良的孩子。
  • It is a classic case of malnutrition. 这是营养不良的典型病例。
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
学英语单词
abettings
absorptive crossing
acid curd
acute congestive tonsillitis
air-crew
Alnica
annealed-in-process wire
archaisms
area of aquifer intake
aspergilliform
block cast
booger
camshaft textolite gear
carbon lightning arrester
chalcone hesperidin
chondromatrix
chroma frequency converter
coil neutralization
current time
custom smelter
cyanoacetylene (hc2cn)
Deller
digital intensity modulation
Dobersdorf
ejector (pump)
emblem and name plate
eurybiontic organism
excess of hatchway
exchange agreement
fancy loom
Fellow's cutter
firebowls
forced draft boiler
foreseeable loss
fresh infusion of senna
gas service pipes
glacialite
global solution
Goodeve's rotational viscometer
horizontal rolled position
hyperinstruments
hypopallium
incapacity pension
javelinas
kindergarten education
kizil skoye
Klemensiewicz
lintel girder
locustamyotropin
lower-level system
made bad weather
metestrus
monostable polarized relay
morsus humanus
nominal lifting load
nucleonic level indicator
oxyura jamaicenses
phifer
piss factory
plattdeutsches
ploughs back
policy data
polypoid form
portal sump
postmenopaueal
prefectural highway
purifying method
roasting kiln
roller follower
row-by-row reading
sand-stemming between the charges of explosives
Sibbaldia purpurea
Sisaket, Changwat
skirrs
sloshed
spectrochrome
stroke density
subgaleal hematoma
taxonomic biochemistry
Telembi, R.
telephoneline
theraphose
thorn-tree
to book a room
train momentum
transport vehicle park
tray bon
tropical superior air mass
trumpet weeds
twelve-wired bird of paradise
twistane
two light lamp
Uber Cup
Ubiquitism
undastan
unpredict-able
vacuum tube Gm meter
verge to
vertical tank
waiver system
wind-frigidity
you dare