-Caveat Lector- UN Warns of Further Famine in Southern Sudan Africa News Service 23-DEC-98 NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA, 12/23/98) - The United Nations warned Wednesday here that famine could threaten millions of people in southern Sudan again next year unless the government in Khartoum and rebels agree to extend an existing partial ceasefire in the country's civil war. Although millions of dollars from donors helped to alleviate the effects of famine in southern Sudan in 1998, the food situation remains fragile, said Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), a UN-created organ grouping several relief agencies which operates from northern Kenya. "Many people are surviving on a fragile base which insecurity could easily shatter," said Philippe Borel, head of the OLS which cordinates most humanitarian relief efforts in Sudan. A six month old cesefire between the governemnt and the rebels of the southern Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), which applies only to the worst affected southern province of Bahr el Ghazal, expires 15 January. Borel said in a statement that a renewal of the ceasefire was essential to avert another famine in 1999. He appealed for its scope to be extended. OLS said more than four million Sudanese in the Bahr el Ghazal and Upper Nile regions of the south and Kassala in the north faced a bleak 1999. The UN World Food Programme says that more than two million people will need 150,000 tonnes of food between now and October 1999. According to OLS officials, UN agencies alone have spent around 200 million US dollars in Sudan in 1998, most of it in the south, to fly and air-drop food and medical help in the drought and war striken region. Although malnutrition rates in the Bahar el Ghazal region have dropped sharply, the crisis is not yet over - especially after drought gave way to some of the worst flooding in the latter part of 1998. SPLA rebels of the mainly Christian and animist south have been fighting the muslim-dominated Khartoum government since 1983 in a civil war that is estimated to have cost more than 1.5 million lives. ================================= Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. ____________________________________________________________________ More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
