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UN launches $124 million consolidated appeal

    NAIROBI

    UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan launched the organisation’s US $124 million Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for Somalia for the year 2000 in Geneva on Tuesday. The UN appealed for $50.5 million for humanitarian assistance and $73.7 million for other priority assistance in light of the need to establish peace and stability, and address emergency needs. A new strategy “to re-establish a functioning state and seek national reconciliation” will take time, but “while steps towards this approach are taken, humanitarian crises are likely to persist for the foreseeable future”, it warned.

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