The United Nations has launched a $2 billion appeal for a worldwide humanitarian response focused on poorer countries. Oxfam said doubling the health spending of the 85 poorest countries, many of them in Africa, would cost $159.5 billion. World Vision's shipment was due to arrive on March 18 but is now lost. "It left Accra, Ghana, and then became stranded in Lagos," said Philippe Guiton, World Vision's director of operations. Eventually the shipment reached Belgium, from where it was supposed to head to CAR, though nobody has been able to track its progress.

Source: International New York Times April 03, 2020 09:22 UTC