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...center's undertaker, expertly wraps these two bodies and four others -- the day's dead -- in rags and burlap sacks discarded from rations that came too late. He puts the bundles into a blue wheelbarrow, wheels them out of the compound and down to the banks of the Juba, where they are lowered together into an open grave...
...with limited success and under considerable danger. Miami-based Southern Air Transport is under contract to the U.N. to fly in maize from Uganda. The S.P.L.A. has vowed to shoot relief planes out of the sky. In October the first planeload of maize actually made it into Juba. Crewmen aboard the C-130 cargo plane peered anxiously through an open escape hatch as their aircraft corkscrewed down to the airstrip, on the lookout for rebel rockets. But even such daring trips cannot begin to save the town from starvation. "This amount of food will feed only a fraction of those...
...Juba is a city of wanderers roaming hopelessly through muddy streets in a desperate search for food. Silent women with empty plastic buckets throng the 2-acre Konyo-Konyo Market, scavenging through its hundreds of barren wooden stalls. Only weeds, leaves and lily pods are for sale, at 50 cents a miserable bunch. Even the richest cannot find food here. A civil servant like Michael Apollo eats only one bowl of boiled weeds a day and sends his family to beg at emergency feeding centers. Everywhere people thrust themselves forward, baring their bony chests and screaming, "Look how hungry...
When the S.P.L.A. overruns a village, it collects all the food and clothing and sends residents into the bush. Then the rebels mine the fields, the houses and the surrounding footpaths so no one can return. The S.P.L.A. even drove displaced people from squalid camps near Juba, forcing them to abandon their crops a second time. The S.P.L.A. reaped the harvest. George Tombe, 32, is a chieftain of Kabo, a village 9 miles west of Juba. The S.P.L.A. stormed Kabo and beat him. "They took everything," he whispers, including the crops. "The harvest was good this year. Now I wait...
Little emergency food is reaching the afflicted. Khartoum supplies its troops at Juba with three food-and-arms flights a day. But not one sack of maize goes to civilians. Northern traders collude with the army to hoard food, then sell it at skyrocketing prices. Last month Prime Minister Sadiq ordered a UNICEF representative to cease shipments of food and medicine to the south. "You are feeding the people who kill my soldiers," he said coldly...