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WFP helicopter to run until February 2000

    ABIDJAN

    The World Food Programme (WFP) has received new funding to operate its emergency humanitarian aid helicopter until the end of February 2000.

    “We have received US $702,000 from the United States and US $250,000 from the Netherlands,” Wagdi Othman, regional information officer for WFP in Abidjan, told IRIN.

    WFP leased the MIL-M18 helicopter at the end of February to airlift humanitarian personnel and emergency food and medical supplies to vulnerable populations in parts of Sierra Leone which were then inaccessible to aid agencies.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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