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| Sri Lanka: First food aid convoy reaches thousands displaced |
| 2008-10-04 |
| (AKI) - The United Nations World Food Programme has dispatched a first convoy of food and other supplies for 200,000 displaced people in areas of Sri Lanka controlled by militant Tamil separatists. The population has been cut off from humanitarian assistance for more than two weeks after fighting in the region escalated. The convoy has delivered enough food to feed the population for one week. Over the coming weeks, WFP plans to send a minimum of one aid convoy per week which will travel from the northern town of Vavuniya through the Omantai crossing point to the conflict-affected areas. WFP truck convoys are also ferrying humanitarian supplies on behalf of other relief agencies. "It is crucial that a regular flow of humanitarian supplies is provided to conflict victims who are extremely vulnerable and in need of the most basic necessities," said Azeb Asrat, WFP Acting Country Director in Sri Lanka. The UN and other international humanitarian aid agencies withdrew from the Vanni Region on 16 September following a government-issued directive requiring staff to be relocated outside the LTTE-controlled area. |
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