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Last month the government recaptured Kabo. Its troops burned the village to the ground. U.S. congressional staffers who visited Sudan returned convinced that the government of Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi bears at least equal responsibility for the starvation. Declared one: "The conduct of the government borders on criminal neglect and a de facto policy of exterminating the southerners...
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...
...more than three times the size of Texas) has been paralyzed by a bloody civil war against secessionist guerrillas in the south. Since 1986, Sudan has been ineligible for loans from the International Monetary Fund because of an inability to service its $12 billion debt. In April, Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi's failure to deal with the country's accumulating crises brought down his second government in two years. As if all those woes were not enough, a plague of locusts is threatening to wipe out the country's meager crops of millet and sorghum...
...Mengistu Haile Mariam, which is battling guerrillas in the country's northern provinces, promptly turned aid into a political tool. Government troops seized a food-laden ship to keep supplies from reaching the rebel-held north, where the famine was most severe. In Sudan, guerrillas battling Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi's regime shot down a passenger plane last August, killing 60 people, and threatened to shoot any relief aircraft that tried to land in the south, where some 2 million Sudanese needed food...
Garang, a Christian member of the Dinka tribe, vows that in spite of the human cost, they will continue fighting until the government of recently elected Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi stops trying to impose Islamic customs upon the Christians and pagans of the south. "Religion must no longer be used for political aims," Garang, 41, told TIME last week in his first interview with a major U.S. publication inside southern Sudan. "Anyone can see that Sudan is disintegrating. There is no government by the people, for the people. A new Sudan must be born...