Press Release


AFR/437-IHA/743
19/07/2002
Press Release
AFR/437
IHA/743


UNITED NATIONS LAUNCHES CONSOLIDATED NATIONAL APPEALS


FOR HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA


(Received from a UN Information Officer.)


The United Nations today launched a $611 million humanitarian appeal to help secure food, medicine and other relief supplies for 13 million people on the brink of starvation in Southern Africa.