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01 Oct 1997

Sudan
As Dry Season Nears, Sudan Rebels Are on Solid Ground

Report
— Christian Science Monitor


Ed O'Loughlin, Special to The Christian Science Monitor

KAJO KAJI, SUDAN -- As the rains draw to a close in the lush bush of southern Sudan, the commanders of a 14-year-old rebellion are contemplating a dry-season campaign that could - they hope - finally end four decades of unrest in the giant country.

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29 Sep 1997

Sudan
Rebel leader does deal with Khartoum

Report
— Mail and Guardian
THE return to Sudan of a top rebel commander this week is a major diplomatic victory for the Islamic fundamentalist regime in Khartoum, sources here say.

Lam Akol, who is the commander of the Sudan People's Liberation Army - United (SPLA-United), returned to Khartoum last Tuesday after spending 11 years in the bush.

''I think Dr Lam Akol's return will be seen as a major victory in Khartoum,'' said an aid worker here last Thursday. ''With Lam Akol now well out of the way, Khartoum will now concentrate its energy to wooing Col John Garang.''

Garang is the leader of the mainstream

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29 Sep 1997

Sudan
OLS Southern Sector Update 97/38

Report
— UN Operation Lifeline Sudan
A weekly report on major developments
concerning relief operations in southern Sudan
ACF REQUESTED TO SUSPEND PROGRAMMES...

In a letter dated 22 September, Action Contre la Faim (ACF) were
formally notified by the SRRA that they must discontinue all
programmes and leave all SPLM/A-controlled areas of southern Sudan by
26 September, on security grounds. All ACF personnel left their
programme locations in Bahr el Ghazal and Equatoria over the weekend
of 27/28 September. The departure from Bahr el Ghazal went smoothly

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26 Sep 1997

Sudan
FEWS bulletin -- September 26, 1997

Report
— US Agency for International Development
Southern Sudan
This year's harvest in southern Sudan is likely to be significantly reduced because of insufficient and poorly distributed rainfall throughout much of the season, despite heavy rainfall in early August. Planting of long-cycle sorghum and millet this year coincided with the May - June dry spell, and NGO's report that crop conditions are very poor. Nevertheless, good rains in September could salvage the yields of long-cycle crops, because they are still in the vegetative stage. In the south of Western Equatoria, most of the short-cycle crops planted earlier
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25 Sep 1997

Sudan
Breakthrough in Sudan talks

Report
— Mail and Guardian
A new willingness to compromise by the Sudan government brought a breakthrough in peace talks with the Sudanese rebels in Kenya this week. More talks are to follow. MOYIGA NDURU reports from Nairobi

Representatives of Sudan's government and a rebel group fighting it since 1983 met here, actually signed a joint communique, and agreed to meet again in what one rebel official called a ''breakthrough'' in the long-stalled negotiations between the two sides.

The joint communique signed late Monday by the government and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) stated

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25 Sep 1997

Sudan
Statement on recent developments in Sudan

Report
— Carter Center
Atlanta, GA... I welcome the agreement in Nairobi by the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) to enter into direct negotiations aimed at peacefully addressing the conflict in Sudan. The people of Sudan have suffered immensely during this prolonged war, and I hope all interested parties will support this significant effort to re-energize the peace process.
I also am pleased that the U. S. Government has announced that it will re-establish a diplomatic presence in Khartoum. This presence will enhance communication between the
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24 Sep 1997

Uganda + 1 other
Uganda's 'Christian' rebels in crisis?

Report
— Mail and Guardian
Uganda's brutal rebels are said to face starvation in a nothern Uganda hideout after their escape routes across the Sudan border were sealed. MOYIGA NDURU reports from Nairobi
EXCITED Ugandan officials insist that Joseph Kony, the enigmatic leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), is starving in his hideout in northern Uganda and looking for a guide to smuggle him out to Kenya to seek refuge there.

News of Kony's alleged plight was broken by Col James Kazini, the overall army commander in northern Uganda. He told the state-run New Vision newspaper on Sep. 19 that the LRA leader

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22 Sep 1997

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 5 others
IRIN Emergency Update No. 253 on the Great Lakes

Report
— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Department of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
for the Great Lakes
Tel: +254 2 622147
Fax: +254 2 622129
e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org

[IRIN encourages readers to fill in the Questionnaire sent on 12 September. Replies can be sent by e-mail or fax until the end of September.]

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Rwandan reinforcements for Bukavu - radio

Rwandan troops are bolstering the defence of the town of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Radio

IRIN:

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This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations or its agencies. Refer to the IRIN copyright page for conditions of use.

Cet article ne reflète pas nécessairement les vues des Nations Unies. Voir IRIN droits d'auteur pour les conditions d'utilisation.

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21 Sep 1997

Sudan
Sudan Rebel Faction Signs Peace Deal With Khartoum

Report
— Pan African News Agency
FASHODA, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudan government and a breakaway faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) have signed a peace accord but the war continues between the main rebel body and the army.
Reporting this Sunday, the Sudan News Agency, Suna, said the government signed the accord Saturday in the country's northern Upper Nile State with the faction led by Lam Akol.

The agency did not provide details of the deal signed by the government's minister for animal wealth, Mussa Mek Kor; the military commander of the Upper Nile Region, Gen. Osman

Pan African News Agency:

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18 Sep 1997

Sudan
Americans Not Helping In Fighting Sudan - Museveni

Report
— Pan African News Agency
Moses Draku, PANA Correspondent
MUBENDE, Uganda (PANA) - President Yoweri Museveni has dismissed claims that Americans instructors who have been training a Ugandan army battalion in peacekeeping roles was here to help his government fight the Sudan.

We don't need the Americans to fight Sudan. We have been fighting Sudan since '86 and the Americans were not here. This suspicion is out-dated and people who believe in it should up-date themselves, he said Wednesday.

Museveni was officiating at a passing out ceremony of Uganda People's Defence Forces's 3rd Battalion that has

Pan African News Agency:

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17 Sep 1997

Sudan
OLS Southern Sector Update 97/37

Report
— UN Operation Lifeline Sudan
A weekly report on major developments concerning relief operations in southern Sudan
ASSESSMENT UPDATE...

The OLS annual needs assessment is now in its second week. So far, the seven teams have covered Arua/Kajo Keji/Mundri, Agaigai, Marial, Yomciir, Lankien, Mogok, Nhialdiu, and Napotpot. The assessment as well as other OLS programmes were temporarily affected by denial of flight clearances between 1-2 September. Most of the teams are back in the field to assess their second locations. The locations already in progress include Malualkon, Baar, Akobo and Chukudum.

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15 Sep 1997

Sudan
Self determination for the Southerners

Report
— Africanews
Issue 18 - September 1997
Self determination for the Southerners
TOPIC: Human rights
by Charles Omondi (2,144 word)

Sudan People's Liberation Movement-United leader, Dr Lam Akol, has chosen not to join forces with either the
SPLA-mainstream of Dr. John Garang, or the National Islamic Front government at a time when all the other political
groupings and movements seem to be coalescing around them. Dr. Akol was in Nairobi recently and talked to our
correspondent on his position.

Dr. Lam Akol you are neither with Dr.

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15 Sep 1997

Sudan
Sudan Monthly Report Sep 1997

Report
— Sudanese Catholic Information Office
Contents
1. Chronology
2. Catholic Bishops visit the Pope
3. Sisters vow to fight on
4. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH asks South Africa to bar arms transfers to Sudan

1. Chronology

August 16: Sudanese President el-Bashir criticised Uganda today after it barred his plane from flying through Uganda airspace, the Sudanese news agency, SUNA, reported. Gen. el-Bashir expressed his "extreme dismay" when Uganda officials refused to allow the aircraft to fly over the country on his return from a tour of South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi.

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10 Sep 1997

Sudan
OLS Southern Sector Update 97/36 10 Sep 1997

Report
— UN Operation Lifeline Sudan
A weekly report on major developments
concerning relief operations in southern Sudan

SEPTEMBER FLIGHT CLEARANCE RECEIVED...
Clearance for OLS flights for the month of September was received on 4 September. The following locations were not approved: Ajiep, Akak, Thiekthou, Akon, Wunrok, Mayen Abun, Warrap, Panyagor, and Yomciir.

REUNIFICATION PLANNED...
UNICEF and Radda Barnen, with support from SCF-UK, are planning a reunification of unaccompanied minors during the third week of September. The group is made up of
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03 Sep 1997

Sudan
OLS Southern Sector Update 97/35

Report
— UN Operation Lifeline Sudan
A weekly report on major developments
concerning relief operations in southern Sudan
ANNUAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT BEGINS...

The 1997 Annual needs assessment kicked off on 1 September. A total of seven teams comprising of OLS personnel will visit 22 areas over the next month gathering information on all sectors i.e. food security (including veterinary concerns, fishing, and seeds & tools), health, water and other non-food sectors. The joint OLS assessment is an annual activity with the aim of identifying the needs of southern

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02 Sep 1997

Sudan
Sudan Complex Emergency Situation Report #2

Report
— US Agency for International Development
U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR)

OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) SUDAN - Complex Emergency

Situation Report #2, Fiscal Year (FY) 1997-- September 2, 1997

Note: The last situation report was dated November 12, 1996.

BACKGROUND

Fighting began in 1983 between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People's
Liberation Army (SPLA) when the southern-based rebels demanded more influence in the
government and protested the GOS efforts to "Islamize" the Christian and animist south. In

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01 Sep 1997

Sudan
Summit focused on efforts to ease strains on Sudanese-Ugandan relations

Report
— Voice of America
DATE=9/1/97
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-219226
TITLE=SAF/SUDAN/CHILDREN (L ONLY)
BYLINE=ALEX BELIDA
DATELINE=PRETORIA
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:

INTRO: ONE OF THE ISSUES DISCUSSED AT THE SUDANESE-UGANDAN
SUMMIT HOSTED BY SOUTH AFRICA ON SUNDAY WAS THE FATE OF CHILDREN
KIDNAPPED BY REBEL GROUPS AND PRESSED INTO SERVICE INVOLUNTARILY.
V-O-A CORRESPONDENT ALEX BELIDA WAS IN PRETORIA FOR THE MEETING,
AND HAS THIS REPORT.

TEXT: THE SUMMIT HOSTED BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA FOCUSED ON

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