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The UN food agency says it is facing critical funding shortages that have forced it to cut aid deliveries to millions of people facing starvation.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said it could have to close parts of its airway, used to fly aid workers to humanitarian trouble-spots.
Deliveries have already been suspended to north Uganda, Ivory Coast and Niger.
The organisation has issued similar warnings in the past when facing funding shortages.
The UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), operated by WFP, has a budget for 2009 of $160m (£96m) but has received less than $90m in fees and contributions this year.
WFP spokesman Greg Barrow said UNHAS was "a vital component of humanitarian operations across the world".
"But because of a funding shortfall there is now a grave risk that the air service … could literally be grounded in the next few weeks due to a lack of funds," he said.
Closures
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WFP said funding for the airline’s Chad service will run out on 15 August and needs $6.7m (£4m) to continue flying to the end of the year.
Spokeswoman Emilia Casella said the single-plane service flies an average of 4,000 humanitarian passengers to and from Chad each month.
She said the cancellation would not stop food deliveries taking place, but would mean that aid workers would not be able to reach communities that need them most.
The service supplying Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea needs $3.3m (£1.9m) to continue flying to the end of the year.
Pierre Carrasse, Chief of WFP’s Aviation Branch, asked how workers could reach the often remote areas affected by conflict without the airline.
"How will WFP reach the hungry How will doctors reach their patients How will people have clean water if the engineers who help to build wells can’t get there," he asked.
Shortages have already led to UNHAS closing its service in Ivory Coast in February.
The Niger service, also suspended that month, is expected to resume in August after a recent donation from the UN Common Emergency Relief Fund.
The UN says 102 million people in 78 countries received food aid last year. </p
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A senior minister who is leaving office has admitted that UK forces in Afghanistan are short of helicopters.
The government also failed to warn the public about the effects of the current offensive, Foreign Office Minister Lord Malloch Brown told the Daily Telegraph.
Eighteen servicemen have died this month, leading to claims that a lack of helicopters has put troops at risk.
However, Chancellor Alistair Darling said the Treasury has never refused requests for more equipment or troops.
His was the latest in a string of government statements insisting the Army has the necessary equipment for its role in the campaign, as part of a Nato-led coalition.
However, Lord Malloch Brown – who steps down at the end of the month – told the Telegraph: "We definitely don’t have enough helicopters."
Parting comments
Most of the British army’s casualties during the Helmand offensive – aimed at shoring up security ahead of elections scheduled for next month – have been caused by roadside bombs.
Critics believe troops are more vulnerable to these makeshift explosives because they are being forced to travel over ground and not by air.
Lord Malloch Brown said: "When you have these modern operations and insurgent strikes what you need, above all else, is mobility."
He added: "We didn’t do a good job of warning the British public that we and the Americans were going on the offensive in Helmand."
BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins said the peer’s government colleagues were "unlikely to thank him for these parting comments".
Political pressure has been mounting over the suggested helicopter shortage.
The chief of the defence staff, Sir Jock Stirrup, said last week that deploying more of the craft would prevent casualties.
The Lib Dems have also accused ministers of vetoing a request for 2,000 extra troops earlier this year.
Mr Darling denied this.
"The Army has said this is what we want in terms of troops and equipment and we have provided that and financed it," he told the Tribune newspaper on Tuesday.
‘Shopping list’
He spoke out after the Head of the Army, Gen Sir Richard Dannatt, revealed he had drawn up a "shopping list" for ministers of resources he says are required for the Afghan mission.
His earlier call for more "boots on the ground" in Afghanistan had been interpreted as a veiled criticism of ministers.
Lord Malloch Brown’s comments add weight to Conservative arguments that the failure to supply troops with enough helicopters has accentuated casualty levels.
Tensions had been heightened when ex-Labour minister Lord Foulkes said military commanders’ comments about resources "threaten to undermine our effort in Afghanistan and give succour to the enemy".
He suggested to peers that the two should be reminded of the "importance of loyalty particularly when we are engaged in a very difficult war where victory is essential for the future safety of this country".
Gen Dannatt has said some of his comments about extra resources needed in Afghanistan had been misrepresented and he was involved in "an ongoing dialogue" with No 10 over the issue.
Gordon Brown has said troop levels in Afghanistan will be reviewed after the elections while stressing there are enough troops there to do the job.
He has insisted the armed forces are better equipped than ever.</p
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