Scotsman.com News - Sudan - UN cash crisis leaves 1m in Darfur facing half rations

Not only is the U.N. unwilling to take military action against the militias, now they cannot even feed the refugees?

Scotsman.com News - Sudan - UN cash crisis leaves 1m in Darfur facing half rations

Carlos Veloso, the WFP’s emergency co-ordinator for Darfur, said: "We have done everything to avoid this, including borrowing supplies. We are simply left with no alternative.

"We are very concerned about the negative effect this drastic ration cut will have on the health and psychological wellbeing of thousands of people, who are already weakened and traumatised by war."

The reduction in food aid will significantly affect the diet of more than one million poor and vulnerable people, WFP added.

The agency said it had received only 41 per cent of the required funds for the emergency programme in 2005.