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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at Oslo donors meeting April. 11. (Xinhua/AFP)

    STOCKHOLM, April 11 (Xinhuanet) -- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday urged donors to pledge one billion US dollars in immediate aid to help southern Sudan's reconstruction after a 21-year-long civil war.

    "In the south, we will run out of food for two million people in a matter of weeks," the Norwegian News Agency quoted Annan as saying at a donors meeting in Norway's capital Oslo.

    "If there was ever a time for donor countries to get off the fence, it is now," Annan said.

    A peace agreement signed in January ended Africa's longest civil war in southern Sudan, paving the way for the country to receive badly needed funding for post-war construction.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (L) are talking with Norwegian Prime Minister at  Oslo donors meeting April. 11. Xinhua/AFP)

    The Oslo donors meeting on April 11-12 was attended by donor countries, international organizations, Sudanese officials and former rebel leaders.

    During the meeting, the Norwegian government promised 1.6 billion Norwegian krone (252 million US dollars ) in the next three years to help Sudan's economic development and reconstruction.

    Norway played an active role in brokering January's peace agreement to end the civil war, which has killed two million people and displaced nine million. Enditem