Tthe United Nations has urged the international community to offer more aid to help the victims of devastating floods in Bangladesh, reports the World Bank press review Tuesday.
Millions of people are expected to be dependent on food aid there for the next five months. The UN representative in Dhaka, Danish national Jørgen Lissner, described the current situation as a quiet disaster.
Flood waters have covered 60 percent of a nation of 140 million people, leaving nearly 30 million people homeless or stranded.
Speaking ahead of a UN meeting in Geneva to review the appeal for aid in Bangladesh, Lissner said people, especially the poor, were in desperate need of help.
He said the UN was worried that donors were no longer contributing aid because the dramatic television pictures had stopped and because their focus had shifted to the Darfur crisis.
