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Tsunami had no impact on aid flow to Africa UNITED NATIONS, Dec 24 (AFP) - Funding for relief aid to Africa broke all records this year and did not suffer from the unprecedented outpouring of international donations for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami, according to a senior UN official. "That had been one of our fears," Jan Egeland, the UN emergency relief coordinator, told AFP. "I think it has not been the case." Despite the world's generosity in response to the December 26 tsunami disaster - with 1.1 billion dollars (nearly one billion euros) received to date following a UN appeal for 1.3 billion dollars - "we have had more or less the same response, on average, to our appeals (for other regions, including Africa) this year as on average before," he added. Egeland's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the UN this year asked donor countries to contribute an unprecedented 3.6 billion dollars in humanitarian aid to Africa, the world's poorest continent, and received roughly two billion dollars, or 56 percent. |
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