UN to Allocate Extra $100 Mn for Humanitarian Aid to Africa, North Korea

The United Nations will allocate additional $100 million to provide vital assistance to the African countries and North Korea, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday.

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — The sums are meant for operations in the nine areas of emergencies that the UN has rated as extremely unfunded. The funds will be allocated through the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF).

According to OCHA, some $64 million will be allocated to the countries of central and eastern Africa to work with large-scale migration of people caused by the conflict in Southern Sudan, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The humanitarian aid is meant for some 1.7 million refugees and internally displaced persons in Burundi ($13 million), Kenya ($4 million), Sudan ($7 million), Tanzania ($11 million), Uganda ($18 million) and Ethiopia ($11 million).

Some $28 million will be allocated to humanitarian agencies working in Libya and Mali. It is expected that the assistance will be obtained by some 350,000 thousand people in crisis- hit Libya. In Mali, the aid should target some 300,000 people.

Some $8 million will be allocated to support more than 2.2 million North Korean people in need, of which 1.8 million are children lacking food.