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Sudan threatens to suspend Implementation Matrix with South Sudan
KEY MESSAGES
• Suspension of the recent Implementation Matrix signed by Sudan and South Sudan is likely to negatively affect food security in both countries by eliminating oil revenues; increasing civil insecuriy along the border and in Abyei; and disturbing cross-border trade, grazing, and employment.
• Medium-term forecasts suggest average to above-average rainfall in the surplus agricultural zones of the center and East, likely leading to an average harvest for 2013/14. However, average to below-average rainfall is expected in Darfur.
• The most severe acute food insecurity (IPC 2.0 Phases 3 and 4) is in SPLM-N-controlled areas of South Kordofan/Abyei, in South Darfur, and in SPLM-N-controlled areas of Blue Nile. Food insecurity is likely to be most severe between now and the peak lean season (July - September).