CENTRAL AFRICA-GREAT LAKES: Donor fatigue affects provision of aid

The United Nations has so far received just 15 percent of its US $289-million appeal for aid programmes – excluding food – in the Great Lakes region for 2002, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs(OCHA) has reported. The $289 million includes a regional appeal for the Great Lakes as well as individual country appeals for the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Republic of Congo, and Uganda.