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Secretary-General commends agreement reached in Sudan allowing unimpeded humanitarian access

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The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General would like to commend the Government of the Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement on reaching an agreement allowing humanitarian workers unimpeded access to all areas and for all people in need in the Sudan. The agreement, which takes effect today, will allow assistance to reach as many as 1 million people who have not been able to receive aid.

The Secretary-General urges the international

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Plan's work in Sudan

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Plan works in regions where persistent drought has resulted in several years of poor harvests and shortages of safe drinking water. There are few public health facilities and a lack of medicines. Sanitation systems are poor. Plan's major challenges in these regions are improvements in health, general living conditions and providing educational and training opportunities.
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The stories and information below illustrate how Plan is working with communities to help people not only fulfil their basic needs, but to build a sustainable future, for generations.

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Southern Sudan - GOS air denied locations - Oct 2002

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Sudan: Feeding programme description

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Medair
The feeding programme has two sectors. The first being the Supplementary Feeding Programme in which all the children in the district between the ages of 6 months and 5 years are admitted. The children need to be weight and measured so that the nutritionist can then calculate the weight for height percentage. If the weight for height (WFH) percentage is between 70% and 80%, the child can be admitted into the Supplementary Feeding Programme.
Once a week the children can come at the SFC in their designated location, where they receive a reasonable quantity
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Sudan adopts plan to beat rebels despite peace talks

KHARTOUM, Oct 31 (AFP) - Sudan's parliament has approved a plan to strengthen the armed forces next year in order to smash the country's rebel movements and recapture all lost territory, despite ongoing peace talks.

The parliamentary vote, reported Thursday by the state news agency SUNA, followed a fighting speech to the assembly by Defence Minister Major General Bekri Hassan Salih.

"The ministry's plan for 2003 aims at liberating every span of the land defiled by the rebellion and foreign mercenaries, securing all territorial land and waters and airspace and

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Sudan: Direct Relief's programme activities update Oct 2002

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Direct Relief
Recipient: Sudan Future Care Health Clinics
Shipment Date: 10/29/2002 Value: $31,000
Over the past two decades, war in Sudan between Christians and animists in the south and Arab-Muslims of the north, and intermittent widespread famine, have cost the lives of over 1.5 million people, displaced millions more Sudanese, and virtually eliminated healthcare services in remote parts of the country. Sudan Future Care is a non-governmental organization comprised of Sudanese healthcare professionals and concerned individuals working to provide health services to displaced people living
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Emergency Mine Clearance in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan 2003

PROJECT: Emergency Mine Clearance in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan 2003
REQUESTING AGENCY: UNMAS

IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), NGOs

OBJECTIVES: To isolate the threat from landmines/UXO in the Nuba Mountains, in part by clearing all contaminated affected roads/routes.

BUDGET YEAR 1: US$ 2,950,000

TIME FRAME YEAR 1: October 2002 - May 2004

SHORTFALL YEAR 1: US$ 2,950,000

SUMMARY : The UN Emergency Mine

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Victims of fighting in Northern Uganda face new threat: mounting hunger

NAIROBI - The United Nations World Food Programme warned today that unless donors came forward with urgent contributions, the victims of fighting in Northern Uganda would soon face severe food shortages leading to unprecedented hunger.
WFP urgently needs 18,000 tons of food to help feed over half a million people until the end of the year. Most of those in need are displaced people or refugees, who are living in destitution due to the prevailing insecurity in Adjumani, Gulu, Kitgum and Pader districts.

There has been a sharp increase in fighting

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WHO Southern Sudan health update Sep/Oct 2002


HIGHLIGHTS

  • Field consultation with and feedback from health workers provides inputs to review EWARN training manual
  • Suspected outbreaks of whooping cough and an upsurge of Leshimaniasis
  • Sub-national immunization campaign conducted in southern Sudan

1.0. DISEASE SURVEILLANCE - AND EARLY WARNING AND RESPONSE NETWORK (EWARN)

1.1. Field experiences used for manual review

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New accord in Sudan paves way for expanded UN assistance to conflict-torn areas

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UN News Service
An accord signed recently by the Government of the Sudan and the main rebel movement is paving the way for expanded United Nations relief operations in the country, a UN spokesman announced today.
A new polio campaign aimed at reaching children who have never been immunized is part of the expanded humanitarian push in the war-ravaged nation under the agreement on access signed over the weekend, spokesman Fred Eckhard told the press in New York.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) calculates that unhindered humanitarian access will enable it to provide aid to an

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Sudanese Foreign Minister urges NDA to join SPLA in talks

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustapha Othman Ismael has encouraged the north-based armed opposition National Democratic Alliance (AND) to involve itself in the ongoing peace talks through John Garang's rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in Kenya.
"If other parties have to participate in the Machakos peace negotiations, we shall be obliged to re-write the initiative, which is a responsibility of the Inter-governmental Authority for Development (IGAD)," he said, adding that only the government
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Sudan's northern opposition split over peace talks

by Joelle Bassoul

KHARTOUM, Oct 29 (AFP) - The main northern opposition groups in Sudan are divided over the merits of the ongoing peace talks between southern rebels and the Khartoum government but agree their exclusion would invalidate any accord.

Umma, the main opposition party of the north led by former prime minister Sadek al-Mahdi, said it would welcome an accord at the talks in Kenya to end 19 years of civil war.

But it insists on the north's participation. "Umma is in favour of peace and we are exerting every efforts to intervene

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Sudanese Bishops make plea to stop war in Sudan

By Jessica Lawrence, Washington File Staff Writer

Washington - "We want the war to be stopped; the civilians are suffering," was the plea from Bishop Paride Taban, from the Diocese of Torit in Southern Sudan. "I register my thanks to the government of America and the people of America [for the Sudan Peace Act signed by President Bush October 21]," he added.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum hosted a briefing October 23 on Sudan by two Sudanese Catholic bishops, Bishop Taban and Bishop Rudolph Deng Majak. The briefing was held in conjunction

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Sudan emergency update Oct 2002

At a glance
Key issues affecting children

Conflict affects approximately 3.15 million children in Sudan. Displacement, separation from families, physical injury and distress are all consequences of conflict.

Children in large parts of the country are vulnerable to chronic or acute food insecurity because of conflict, climate and poor infrastructure.

Unclean water sources and poor sanitary and living conditions are a serious threat to the health of many of Sudan's poorest children.

Poverty, lack of resources and inadequate

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Sudan: Landmark aid deal signed

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IRIN
NAIROBI, 28 October (IRIN) - The Sudanese government, the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) and the United Nations system on Saturday signed an historic agreement allowing unimpeded humanitarian access to hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan.
"In the whole history of OLS we have never had unfettered access. Some places we know are facing dire conditions and we can expect the demands to be extraordinary," Ronald Sibanda, of the UN's Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), said in a statement.

The arrangement would last from 1 November

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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.

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Sudan's displaced dream of peace and going home

by Joelle Bassoul

AL-SALAM CAMP, Sudan, Oct 28 (AFP) - Samia Nour, holding her three-year-old daughter Awatef, sits on a blanket on a dirt floor in a medical center run by aid organizations, and joins other women in a song about clean water.

Awatef, who is suffering from malnutrition and dysentery, has spent three months in this nutritional and medical center at al-Salam camp, south of Omdurman, a suburb of Khartoum.

Nour and her daughter are among the 250,000 residents of four camps for displaced people around Khartoum.

They are just a part of the two million

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Sudan govt, rebels agree rules on aid access

NAIROBI, (Reuters) - Sudan's civil war combatants agreed humanitarian rules on Saturday that could allow aid agencies unfettered access to suffering civilians for the first time, the United Nations said.

The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said the government and Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) rebels had signed an accord establishing procedures for unimpeded humanitarian aid access to hundreds of thousands of war-affected people in Sudan. "This is a unique opportunity to reach people and look after their needs as never

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Sudan: Government casts doubt over talks

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IRIN
NAIROBI, 25 October (IRIN) - The Sudanese government has claimed southern rebels have violated an agreed truce, putting in doubt the future of peace talks to bring an end to the country's 19-year civil war.
"If the GOS [Government of Sudan] troops are compelled to intervene or [are] thus drawn in any new fighting over there, this could do away with the MOU [Memorandum of Understanding] altogether," a statement from the Sudanese embassy in Nairobi said.

According to the statement, the forces of a rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A)-allied militia

IRIN:

A selection of IRIN reports are posted on ReliefWeb. Find more IRIN news and analysis at http://www.irinnews.org

Une sélection d'articles d'IRIN sont publiés sur ReliefWeb. Trouvez d'autres articles et analyses d'IRIN sur http://www.irinnews.org

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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Relief agencies express alarm over rebel attacks, Government response in northern Uganda

More than a dozen international relief agencies working in northern Uganda issued a statement in early October calling for immediate restoration of security in the region and improved access for humanitarian aid to thousands of refugees and internally displaced persons affected by the widening conflict between the Ugandan army and Ugandan rebels known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
The humanitarian agencies, many of whom declined to publicize their identity, expressed concern that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has pursued a flawed strategy toward the conflict in his