HORN OF AFRICA: BRITISH AID

HL Deb 13 February 1992 vol 535 cc37-8WA

Lord Molloy

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What response they will make to the appeal by the Secretary-General of the United Nations for funds to assist the people of the Horn of Africa who are threatened by disease and starvation.

The Earl of Caithness

This week we approved a British contribution of £23 million to the appeal. The contribution is made up as follows:

	£ million
Food aid
(i) Ethiopia, including Eritrea—20,000 tonnes and
(ii) Sudan—25,000 tonnes	112
Non-food aid
(i) UNHCR activities in the Horn	5
(ii) British NGO humanitarian activities in the Horn	6
	23
1 Approximate.

This pledge is additional to the £107 million, including 185,000 tonnes of food aid and our share of EC emergency aid, which we have committed for humanitarian relief in the Horn of Africa since the present crisis began in September 1990. The food aid total included £2.2 million for Somalia announced in January this year.