Sudan seeks aid

Sudan sought $2.6 billion from donors yesterday to help its south recover after Africa's longest civil war amid UN warnings of food shortages and calls for Khartoum to end violence in its western Darfur region. Donors meeting in Oslo made aid pledges...

Sudan sought $2.6 billion from donors yesterday to help its south recover after Africa's longest civil war amid UN warnings of food shortages and calls for Khartoum to end violence in its western Darfur region.

Donors meeting in Oslo made aid pledges exceeding $2 billion on the first day of the two-day meeting of 60 nations at which ex-rebels and Sudan's government vowed to stick to their January North-South deal to end 21 years of fighting.

"In the south, we will run out of food for two million people in a matter of weeks," UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned delegates of one of the world's poorest regions. "Other critical sectors like water and health are even worse off."

"If ever there was a time for donors to get off the fence, it is now," he said. IU.

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