World has $100m to give Burma - if access is improved

Donor nations say they are ready to provide Burma with more than $100m (€63m) to help it recover from Cyclone Nargis, but are warning its ruling junta they will not fully open their wallets until they are given access to the hardest-hit areas.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, speaking after yesterday’s meeting of 51 donor nations, indicated that Burma’s isolationist junta might soon allow foreign aid workers, unhindered, into the devastated Irrawaddy Delta.