VOL. XXX

NO. 22

9-MARCH-1987

Financial and Banking News

AID FLOWS

USAID Donates Emergency Food Supplies to Southern Sudan

The USAID has announced that it will provide an initial shipment of 12,000tons of food supplies which constitutes one-sixth of the needs of the civiliansin South Sudan, according to a joint survey by US and Sudanese agencies. Lastyear relief organizations estimated three million Sudanese faced starvation inthe south because of the drought and the civil war engulfing the area.