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NAME: SUD AID DROP 020804Nx TAPE: EF04/0777 IN_TIME: 10:02:33:22 DURATION: 00:01:38:24 SOURCES: APTN DATELINE: Darfur - 2 Aug 2004 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: 1. Wide shot of plane flying 2. Plane flies overhead, World Food Programme sacks drop out of plane 3. Wide shot of food sacks dropping onto ground 4. Plane flying away 5. Wide shot of Sudanese army soldiers looking in direction of plane 6. Townspeople watching 7. Wide shot of donkey carts moving to drop site 8. Sacks on ground, people approaching to pick them up 9. People picking up sacks and putting them into piles 10. Donkey cart with load of WFP sacks, pull out to wide shot of people stacking up food sacks 11. Various of sacks with WFP logo on them 12. People stacking sacks 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter Smerdon, Spokesman, World Food Programme: "Here in western Darfur it's the only thing that the World Food Program can do to get food to as many a people as possible. This place of Fur Buranga has been cut off since last month and there are 26,000 people here who are receiving food this week." 14. Women next to food sacks 15. Man and woman carrying sacks through gate STORYLINE: The United Nations World Food Programme air-dropped 84 tons (tonnes) of supplies into Sudan's conflict-ridden Darfur region on Monday. The aid was dropped near Fur Buranga, a farming town in western Darfur located about 10 kilometres (six miles) from the Chad border. The Rome-based UN agency said that it had airdropped 22 tons (tonnes) of food supplies to Fur Buranga on Sunday using an Antonov-12 plane. The agency plans to deliver a total of some 1,400 tons (tonnes) of food including cereals, pulses, corn-soya blend and salt in a first round of airdrops to help more than 70,000 people displaced by the 17-month conflict. The agency has said it anticipates that the air-supply effort in Darfur will exceed the Berlin airlift of the late 1940s. The World Food Programme said it intends to continue airdrops throughout the rainy season, which lasts into September. During that period, trucks carrying food get bogged down in mud. They are also at risk from bandits, the agency said. The agency appealed for funds, saying it had so far received only 78.5 million US dollars of the 195 million US dollars it needs to cover its emergency work in Darfur this year. An estimated 30,000 people have been killed in the conflict in Darfur. One million people have been forced to flee their homes, and an estimated 2.2 million people are in urgent need of food, medicine and other basics. International aid organisations have accused the Sudanese government of supporting the Arab militias, known as Janjaweed, in a brutal campaign to drive Sudanese citizens of African origin out of Darfur.