Some 200,000 of them will need food aid, it said in a recent report.

It has not decided how much food aid to provide next year, officials said.

The rest will be spent on food aid and other basic services.

More than 12 million people currently need food aid, many of them children.

Let me say a few words about food aid as a possible alternative.

But giving food aid to the rebels is not the answer.

This statement is clearly true in the context of food aid.

There is 70% unemployment and over 6 million people are in need of food aid.

I believe food aid is distributed far too easily by the Americans, among others.

Only in recent months have the two sides had any significant contact, mostly over food aid.