WFP requires an additional US$220 million for food and nutrition operations and another US$16 million to run
UNHAS over the next six months in South Sudan.
A further contribution will allow WFP to continue to operate
UNHAS, the vital air service that provides the humanitarian community with crucial transport around the country.
From January to June 2015, the UN Humanitarian Air Service (
UNHAS) flew 20,000 aid workers to areas that were previously unreachable by other means particularly in Darfur region.
And keeping
UNHAS' passenger and cargo services running is a critical part of all humanitarian work in Sudan," further said Welberts.
"We welcome the liberation of Captain Artjoms Nalbandjans, co-pilot Janis Gindra and mechanic Kaspars Reihlers, who had been taken hostage in Darfur, Sudan, while working for the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (
UNHAS).
KHARTOUM -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed the news that three Latvian men working as helicopter aircrew for the WFP United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (
UNHAS) in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, have been freed after more than a month in captivity.