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To: LARRY LARSON who wrote (7848)	2/26/1998 1:29:00 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Respond to of 9164

Larry, road from the Ugandan Border into the northern Bahr-el-Ghazal Area now open to carry supplies..... Choose another news channel: ÿPersonalized news Personalized news: Personalize all news categories It's new & easier! Need instructions & examples? ÿ<Picture><Picture>Full story U.N. agency delivers food to Sudan from Uganda 04:04 p.m Feb 25, 1998 Eastern NAIROBI, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The U.N. food aid agency WFP said on Wednesday it had completed its first successful delivery by road of emergency supplies to remote parts of southern Sudan battered by civil war. ''The agency has just succeeded in delivering urgently needed food by road to northern Bahr el Ghazal, marking the first time that the United Nations has managed to send food so far north by road from Uganda,'' the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement. It said a first convoy of 120 tonnes of sorghum -- enough to feed 50,000 people for six days -- arrived in Mapel on Sunday after a 900-km (560-mile) journey on rough and broken roads. Over 100,000 people were displaced by fighting in Bahr el Ghazal early this year but a Sudan government ban on relief flights by the U.N. Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) is obstructing efforts to help them, aid agencies say. Sudan has been hit by outbreaks of civil war for over 40 years but the current phase of the conflict began in 1983. The black, mainly Christian or animist south is fighting for autonomy from the Moslem, Arabised north. The rebel Sudan Peoples' Liberation Army (SPLA) fights in the name of liberation for the southern blacks. On Sunday, journalists flew to Bahr el Ghazal with the charity Doctors Without Borders which ferried medicine to within 150 km (95 miles) of Wau, the latest battleground in the war. It was the first flight into the region since the government of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir slapped the ban on flights in the area on security grounds on February 4. Relief agencies estimate that four million people will need emergency food supplies in the whole of Sudan and have appealed for $109 million for the purpose. Journalists saw hundreds of people who had walked as far as 90 km (55 miles) in search of food. Last week the United Nations issued a warning of increased fighting between the SPLA rebels and government forces.