Global/Africa: U.N. food agency warns of looming aid shortage

The United Nations food agency warned that it would soon have to reduce rations to refugees in Africa unless donors came up quickly with the $315 million it needed. The World Food Programme (WFP), which aids some 2.2 million people worldwide, said it had received only $460 million of the $775 million sought in funding for 2005, of which 75 percent is spent in Africa.