Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Sulaf Eddin Salih said the children were flown on a Kenya Airways flight in accordance with a previous agreement between Khartoum and Kampala for repatriation of Ugandan children abducted into Sudan by the LRA.

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• In June, a military offensive by the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in the area of Raja, in Bahr-el-Ghazal, and a counter attack by government forces in September generated the displacement of tens of thousands of people.
• The ICRC has been providing water for the displaced, helping to re-establish contact between separated family members and providing support to many of the country's medical facilities, especially those needing to cope with influxes of war-wounded patients.

On 6 September, the USA appointed former

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By Steve Collins

NUBA MOUNTAINS, Sudan, Nov 28 (AFP) - Jelila Omar, a 35-year-old Nubian peasant woman, displayed her deformed arm, despoiled two years ago, fleeing from the Sudanese army to hide in the mountains, fracturing her wrist and several ribs in the process.

Following a day working in the bean fields on the mountainside despite her disability, drops of sweat ran down her face onto her dress, the colours blurred by dust and earth.

"This place is no good," she said, pointing to football-sized rocks among the crops of beans and sorghum.

Unusually early and heavy rains resulted in severe flooding in eight states in Sudan, causing 36 deaths. The states affected were Khartoum, River Nile, Sinnar, Gezira, Northern state, Red Sea, Kassala and North Kordofan states. More than 20,000 houses were damaged or destroyed, leaving approximately 100,000 individuals in need of assistance. Water borne diseases and malaria were rife in all the affected states.

The Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS), supported by the Federation, initially intervened using available stockpiles

KHARTOUM, Nov 27 (AFP) - Sudan has voiced reservations to US special envoy John Danforth about his proposal for a ceasefire in Sudan's central Nuba Mountains as part of his mission to end 18 years of civil war, President Omar al-Beshir was quoted as saying Tuesday.

Beshir, quoted by state-run radio and television as well as independent newspapers, said the ceasefire must also include neighboring areas through which a government oil pipeline travels.

"We have expressed to the American

NUBA MOUNTAINS, Sudan, Nov 27 (AFP) - From his perch in the Nuba Mountains, a 22-year-old clutching a Kalashnikov watches over the immense plain of brown sorghum fields below, near where government forces are garrisoned.

Thomas belongs to the Nuba, a traditionally animist community of 500,000 people who took up arms against the Sudanese government in the late 1980s to defend their rights and against raids by neighboring Muslim militias.

The central Nuba region, about 600 kilometers (460 miles) from the capital Khartoum, is one of five fronts in a civil