Funding Shortage Forces UN Air Service to Halt Aid Flights in West Africa

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–15 June 2010 – A lack of funding has forced the United Nations food aid agency to suspend humanitarian flights to three West African countries from tomorrow, the agency reported today.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP), which manages the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), said flights to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia will be halted because it has been unable to raise the $2.5 million required to continue operating until…