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US Clears Unexploded Ordnance to Speed Relief to Sudan
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United States Department of State (Washington, DC)
PRESS RELEASE
October 29, 2004
Posted to the web November 5, 2004
Washington, DC
United States Clears Unexploded Ordnance to Help Speed Relief Aid to Sudan's Rumbek Region
The U.S. Department of State's Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, working through its RONCO Consulting Corporation contractor, successfully completed a battlefield area clearance project by the vital dirt airstrip at Rumbek in southern Sudan. This will enable the United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) to safely improve the runway, making it available to large transport aircraft, significantly increasing the volume of relief supplies provided to meet the needs of Sudanese civilians.
Rumbek is an important transit point for food, medicine and other critical items en route to needy populations in southern Sudan. Up to now, only small single and twin-engine aircraft could land at Rumbek. With the completion of the battlefield area clearance, WFP will be able to expand the airstrip so that larger aircraft such as C-130 transports can deliver greater amounts of aid.
The World Food Program is expected to begin runway and apron improvements in November.
Photos depicting the Rumbek airstrip in its present state, immediately following completion of the battlefield area clearance project, may be viewed online at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/pix/b/37518.htm.
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In 2002, the U.S. Department of State facilitated the safe return of displaced Sudanese to the Nuba Mountain region in Sudan by deploying its Quick Reaction Demining Force to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance there.
The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs provides humanitarian mine action assistance and support for small arms /light weapons mitigation worldwide. To learn more, visit www.state.gov/t/pm/ wra.
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