United Nations Radio

A fast response from donors totalling some $15 million dollars has enabled the humanitarian air service which flies aid workers to critical areas in Sudan to continue running until the end of December.

"These donations have arrived just in time," said Kenro Oshidari, the World Food Programme's Representative in Sudan. "Our passengers - relief workers from more than 200 aid organizations operating in Sudan," he continued, would be unable to do their vital work without the WFP.

In another development, WFP said that a Ugandan food truck driver was killed in an ambush in southern Sudan. This brings to five the number of drivers or their assistants killed in South Sudan this year. WFP's Coordinator for South Sudan said food relief truck drivers risk their lives to bring urgently needed food to vulnerable people; such attacks are completely unacceptable.

For United Nations Radio, I'm Gerry Adams.

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