"UN airdrops food to Sudan refugees" Associated Press, August 17, 2012
JUBA, South Sudan — Officials from a United Nations food agency airdropped 32 metric tons of food to refugees on the South Sudan-Sudan border, an expensive, last-ditch way to get food to tens of thousands of people who have been forced out of Sudan by fighting and hunger, an official said Thursday.
The food was wrapped in rugged bags and pushed out of a cargo plane that flew low and slow, then pointed its nose upward so the cargo slid out the rear, said Challiss McDonough, a World Food Program spokeswoman. No parachutes were used. The airdrop was used because a long rainy season has created muddy conditions, making ground deliveries slow and difficult for the refugees who have trekked to the camps.
“This is the first in a series of airdrops that aims to replenish rapidly diminishing food stocks for more than 100,000 people who have fled the fighting north of the border,” said Ertharin Cousin, director of the World Food Program.
The first airdrops were made Wednesday in Maban County in Upper Nile State. Camps there — along with another in a region called Yida — have received more than 160,000 refugees who have fled war on the other side of the border in Sudan.
The refugees in Maban come from the Nuba mountains in Sudan’s Blue Nile State. They have fled fighting between rebels in the north and Sudanese government forces. Fighting between the government and the rebels broke out in Sudan’s South Kordofan State after South Sudan’s independence in July 2011. The clashes spread to neighboring Blue Nile State.
The World Food Program plans to deliver up to 2,000 metric tons of food to Maban in the coming days and weeks.
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Just don't deliver it in a Sudanese helicopter:
"Sudanese helicopter crash kills 32" Associated Press, August 20, 2012
KHARTOUM, Sudan — A Sudanese helicopter carrying a government delegation crashed in a mountainous southern region on Sunday, killing all 32 people on board including a Cabinet minister, a former presidential adviser, two generals, and a TV crew, on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
I'm sorry, readers, but I've become suspicious of any plane crash as reported by my papers due to all the lies and cover-ups over the years. When it involves high-ranking VIPs and important people even more. My first thought is who benefits from certain individuals elimination.
So what's the official explanation this time?
‘‘harsh weather conditions’’
slammed into a mountain
‘‘zero visibility”
Okay.
Sudan has a poor aviation safety record, with a large number of jet accidents occurring on landing.
This was a helicopter with important people.
In late 2010, a plane carrying 36 people crashed on landing in Sudan’s western Darfur region, killing at least two people.
And in May 2008, before South Sudan became a separate country, a plane crash in a remote area in the south killed 24 people, including key members of the regional southern Sudanese government.
Hmmmmm, another one.
Five years earlier, a Sudan Airways Boeing 737 en route from Port Sudan to Khartoum crashed soon after takeoff, killing all 115 people on board.
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Next course:
"Report warns of hunger in Sudan" by Jason Straziuso | Associated Press, October 19, 2012
NAIROBI — More than 80 percent of people living in a conflict zone in Sudan’s southern region are eating only one meal a day, compared with 10 percent one year ago, a US advocacy group said Thursday, citing research collected from a region where aid groups are not allowed to operate.
The Enough Project warned that hunger is increasing to dangerous levels in the Sudanese state of South Kordofan. A study carried out by an aid group showed that girls are suffering the worst. Girls in the region have reached a ‘‘critical’’ level of malnutrition, the most serious classification on the World Health Organization’s scale. Boys are just below that level, at ‘‘serious.’’
The research was conducted by an aid group that the Enough Project said didn’t want to be identified. Sudan forbids aid groups from operating in South Kordofan, where rebels are fighting government troops. Aid workers must sneak into the region.
Thousands of families fleeing hunger and violence in the Nuba Mountains have streamed into South Sudan over the past year....
John Prendergast, cofounder of the Enough Project, said the situation is similar to the conditions seen leading up to the famine in Somalia last year....
Related: Somali Starvation Was a Sales Pitch
It was cover for stepped-up military action as always.
Also see: Somali famine over, but crisis remains
I know it is tremendously cynical; however, the see the unresolved problem of hunger on this planet as the product of genocidal globalist policies designed to eliminate "useless eaters" while also keeping the masses weak.
The fighting pits the Khartoum government against rebel groups allied with the guerrilla forces that came to power in South Sudan, but were left on the north side of the border after the south became independent in July 2011. The separation followed a peaceful independence vote guaranteed in a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war.
How come Palestine or Kashmir don't get a vote?
George W. Bush deserves the credit, or so I have read.
Since the fighting in South Kordofan began more than a year ago, access to the remote region by the United Nations and international aid agencies has been restricted by the Sudanese government, making it difficult to verify conditions.
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And what other population thinner do the globalists have at their disposal?
"Yellow fever kills 107 in Sudan" by Maggie Fick | Associated Press, November 14, 2012
CAIRO — An outbreak of yellow fever in Sudan’s Darfur region has killed 107 people in the last six weeks, the World Health Organization reported Tuesday, warning that the disease could spread all over the country.
The number of deaths from the outbreak is steadily rising, and Sudan is working on an emergency vaccination drive. Officials reported last week that 67 people had died in the outbreak.
There is no medicinal cure for yellow fever, which is spread by mosquitoes. Doctors treat the main symptoms — dehydration, fever, bleeding, and vomiting — and wait for the viral infection to pass.
The WHO estimates that more than 500 million people in 32 countries in Africa are at risk of yellow fever infection.
As part of the emergency response program, 2.4 million doses of the yellow fever vaccine are scheduled to arrive in the Sudanese capital next week, Dr. Anshu Banerjee of the WHO office in Sudan said by phone on Tuesday....
Banerjee warned that yellow fever cases are ‘‘definitely spreading’’ to new areas of the remote region of Darfur, where Sudan’s government has been battling rebel groups since 2003. More than 300,000 people have been killed in the conflict, and health care services are not available to many as a result of the turmoil.
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The fever must have broke because it was the last I saw of it in my Boston Globes.
On to much more important items:
"Sudan, South Sudan sign pact reopening oil industry" by Jeffrey Gettleman |
New York Times, September 28, 2012
KAMPALA, Uganda — The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan signed a long-awaited cooperation agreement on Thursday, paving the way for the resumption of oil exports and casting their ailing economies a desperately needed lifeline. But several analysts said the deal had significant shortcomings.
The status of Abyei, a contested border area, was not settled. Nor was that of several other disputed territories, differences that have driven the countries’ two leaders, historic enemies, nearly to all-out war.
Oil and war go together like chocolate and peanut butter, don't they?
“The seeds of further conflict are firmly planted in this partial deal,’’ John Prendergast, a cofounder of the Enough Project, an antigenocide organization that watches the two Sudans closely, said by e-mail.
Last year, amid great jubilation, South Sudan split off from Sudan after decades of guerrilla struggle.
It's a good guerilla struggle when it serves those in power and the $pecial intere$t$.
But the divorce was messy.
They usually are.
Forces from the two countries have battled intensely over the past year amid confusion over disputed areas and contested oil fields.
Do I have to keep typing the same things over and over again?
South Sudan has billions of barrels of oil, but the pipeline to export it runs through the north. The south shut down production last winter, which deeply wounded the economies of both countries, leading to skyrocketing inflation, protests, and rising discontent.
And THAT is why they had to be separated from Sudan.
Since then, negotiations have gone around and around, with increasing pressure by the United States, the African Union, and the United Nations to come to an agreement.
Since Sunday, Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, and Salva Kiir, South Sudan’s leader, had been holed up together in negotiating rooms in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, trying to hammer out a compromise. For years, the two men fought each other on the battlefield, and it seems that the history of bitterness has been extremely difficult to overcome.
I'm finding things that way the more I learn of the truth.
On Thursday, they emerged to announce that they would demilitarize the border — a step that had been agreed to in principle last year but was almost instantly violated when Sudan began a brutal counterinsurgency campaign in the Nuba Mountains.
Is that the way it happened?
Related: Spinning the Invasion of Sudan
Don't let the distortions get you dizzy, readers.
The two sides also committed to resuming cross-border trade.
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"South Sudan expels UN rights officer" New York Times, November 06, 2012
KAMPALA, Uganda — South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan last year after decades of civil war, has expelled a UN human rights officer after the government objected to a report raising allegations of atrocities by South Sudan’s army.
Hey, wait a minute, those are supposed to be the "good guys."
Hilde F. Johnson, head of the United Nations mission in South Sudan, described the expulsion as a ‘‘breach of the legal obligations’’ of South Sudan’s government ‘‘under the Charter of the United Nations.’’
Human rights monitoring ‘‘must be protected,’’ Johnson said in a statement Sunday.
“Human rights violations and discrimination were at the core of the South Sudanese struggle during decades of civil war,’’ the statement said.
The report, published by the UN in June, accused South Sudan’s military of widespread abuses while trying to disarm civilians in South Sudan’s Jonglei State after a surge of ethnic violence. South Sudan condemned the report as one-sided.
According to the UN statement, one of its human rights officers was recently given 48 hours to leave the country.
The officer — identified by a colleague outside the UN as Sandra Beidas — is now in Entebbe, Uganda, according to the statement, ‘‘pending a decision on her future status.’’
‘‘This expulsion raises serious concerns, and we hope it does not represent a step backward for human rights in South Sudan,’’ said Jehanne Henry, a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch in the region.
Officials from South Sudan’s Information Ministry and the president’s office could not be reached for comment.
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NEW YORK — The United Nations said South Sudan’s armed forces shot down a UN helicopter on Friday, killing all four Russian crew members on board — but South Sudan’s military spokesman blamed rebel fighters.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stood by the UN’s account in a statement, strongly condemning the shooting down ‘‘of a clearly marked UN helicopter by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army’’ and calling on South Sudan’s government to conduct an immediate investigation and prosecute those responsible....
Pibor County in Jonglei state, where the helicopter was shot down, has been the scene of recent clashes between rebel militia fighters led by David Yauyau and South Sudanese forces. A former member of the South Sudanese Army, Yauyau launched his rebellion after failing to win a parliamentary seat in the Sudanese general elections in April 2010. South Sudan accuses Sudan of arming Yauyau....
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Also see: Larry Hyde has been most everywhere but yearns for more
UPDATE:
"Security talks stall on border accord
JUBA — South Sudan and Sudan failed to reach an agreement on security arrangements and oil exports, officials said Saturday after days of talks in Ethiopia’s capital. The two sides were in Addis Ababa negotiating the implementation of a demilitarized border zone, which called on Juba and Khartoum to withdraw forces 6 miles from the border."
