governmental organisations in immediate aid. "The U.N. is coordinating the aid. That is our main task," said Egeland. An estimated 1.9 million people had received medical aid, about 2 million had received food aid and 700,000 school-children had received school materials. The U.N. would see to it that the money donated would not be misused although that could not be ruled out, Egeland said adding, the world's other "forgotten emergencies" should not be excluded. Sudan needed 1.7 billion dollars, but only 168 million dollars had been received so far "which amounts to about one-fifth of what Europe spends on ice-cream every year", Egeland said. --SP 2233 Local Time 1933 GMT
