Despite urgent appeals for international aid by both the government of Zambia and WFP in December 2005, no new donations have been received and refugees in Zambia have been on half-rations since 1 January 2006. "We have a refugee caseload of up to 82,000 people and we have not received any new contributions since July 2005, so it's getting a bit difficult. The food stocks we do have will run out by the end of March. We need $8.5 million to provide food to refugees until the end of December this year," WFP spokeswoman Jo Woods told IRIN.