The World - News from March 27, 1986

Africa, although recovering from famine, faces a dangerous shortage of medicine and other non-food items if donor nations do not respond quickly to an appeal, Maurice Strong, the United Nations’ disaster-relief coordinator for Africa, said. “We have been deeply concerned that all the good reports of good rains. . . and all the reports that many people have survived have created a sense in donor countries that the African emergency is over,” Strong said. Large quantities of medicine as well as tents and water-supply equipment are needed immediately, he said.