A UN consolidated inter-agency appeal for countries of the Great Lakes region is seeking over US $162 million for the period January-December 2000 to help in coordination, providing assistance to vulnerable populations, protection and repatriation of refugees and returnees as well as reintegration activities. The appeal says that the affected populations in the region, which now stand at 4,500,000, are expected to increase in the coming year. It noted that the current humanitarian situation in the region was worsening. “Of pressing concern to the humanitarian community is the glaring disparity between political initiatives and humanitarian actions,” it observed. However, despite this, the prognosis for peace in 2000 was somewhat more hopeful than in 1999. The appeal will cover activities in Burundi, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Uganda.
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