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UN asks for $7bn aid The United Nations has launched its biggest ever appeal for humanitarian aid, requesting $7 billion to help 30 million people in 31 countries. Ignoring crisis on the financial markets and a downturn in the global economy, the UN has nearly doubled its 2008 request of $3.8 billion. The appeal was formulated working with 360 aid organisations and attempts to meet the world's humanitarian challenges in a strategic and coordinated way. Secretary general Ban Ki-moon said: "Our aim is to help these most vulnerable people survive the coming year, and enable them to start working their way out of vulnerability and despair towards the dignity, safety and self-sufficiency to which every human being has a right." The biggest aid package requested for a single country is Sudan, whose war-ravaged Darfur region requires $2 billion as aid agencies seek to limit the impact of the ongoing humanitarian crisis there.  20 November 2008, 08:42 |
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