81.   Fighting has kept the airport closed for three days running, blocking UN planes carrying desperately needed food and medicine.

82.   In Sudan more than one million people had been displaced or were otherwise affected by civil war and needed food aid.

83.   Iraq last month resumed limited oil exports for the first time in six years in order to raise funds to buy badly needed food and medicine.

84.   Iraqis had hoped it would take effect in September allowing the import of much-needed food and medicine.

85.   A UN convoy carrying a desperately needed food shipment reached the embattled Bihac enclave of northwest Bosnia Wednesday evening, the United Nations said.

86.   A US-chartered vessel has started off-loading urgently needed food aid at the Tanzanian port city of Dar es Salaam.

87.   The United Nations says banditry on roads in the region is preventing deliveries of urgently needed food aid.

88.   The United Nations says banditry on roads in the Kandahar area is preventing deliveries of urgently needed food aid.

89.   This allows the country to sell two billion dollars of oil every six months in order to buy badly needed food and medicine for civilians.

90.   The United Nations began Thursday distributing desperately needed food to residents in the northwest Bosnian enclave of Bihac where famine threatens the most vulnerable, a UN spokesman said.