America, China, Russia and South Korea have agreed to supply the aid.
The UK's Department for International Development said the aid would help to supply emergency water, sanitation and healthcare to more than 58, 000 people.
Other regions, including Puntland, are likely to be identified as being at risk of famine in the coming weeks unless the supply of aid increases substantially.
And in the event of a financial emergency a currency board has less freedom than a central bank to act as lender of last resort, because the board cannot boost the money supply to aid troubled banks.
Mr Chalabi, who has been flown into southern Iraq with 700 American-trained fighters, complained that Jay Garner, a retired American general chosen to run an interim Iraqi government, had not yet arrived in the country, and said that faster action was needed to restore electricity and water supplies, and to supply humanitarian aid.
On at least two occasions last summer, the Bonneville Power Administration - the federal agency responsible for marketing power from dams in the Pacific Northwest - used water meant to aid migrating juvenile salmon to supply California with hydroelctricity.
Although nothing like so important as the request that Turkey turned down, opening a supply line to American troops and allowing humanitarian aid through Turkey is a significant boost to the American war effort.
This team focused their design on a mobile computer capable of traveling with disaster relief teams to monitor supply levels during times of crisis to ensure faster aid responses to victims.
"This significant move not only allows for free movement of the population, but also opens up this key supply route and allows for the provision of humanitarian aid, " it said in a statement.
But in democracies that bent can lead to silly policies such as the new government of Thailand's subsidized rice price, designed to aid farmers but imperiling a huge export market with artificially high supply costs.
Such aid this year provided more than 10% of its total grain supply, almost twice as much as four years ago.
Although some supply chains have choke points, that is a weak general argument for sectoral aid.
While pharmaceutical companies are not the sole parties to blame when drug supply chains break down, they certainly play a role by relying almost completely on local aid and governmental organizations to distribute drugs.
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Mr. CLOONEY: Egypt's foreign minister met with us and offered to supply a large number of Egyptian doctors and humanitarians to help fill the void left by the aid workers that have been forced to leave.
The country's roads and the capital's airport were so congested that the supply lines of goods into Haiti were clogged, leaving thousands of survivors to scrounge for food and emergency aid.
Pakistan has shut its border, which will temporarily hurt NATO's supply chain to Afghanistan, but the country continues to rely on billions of dollars in military and civilian aid from the U.S. Washington, likewise, needs Pakistan to keep up pressure on Taliban militants in the tribal region, and as a supply route.
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