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Sudan has more problems besides fickle weather. For five years, the government of Africa's largest country (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...
...secessionist uprising has begun to stir in the Torres Strait Islands, a balmy archipelago off Australia's remote northern coast. Charging neglect by the government in far-off Canberra, the 5,000 mostly Melanesian islanders are demanding self-rule, along with $3.5 billion in federal compensation. Their main gripe is that Australian-based fisheries are exploiting the waters surrounding the 15 islands, which include those whimsically named Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday...
...Mengistu's tyranny were not bad enough, the secessionist rebels in famine-threatened Eritrea are now showing that they too can and will interfere with United Nations food shipments. Says Manuel Pietri of the Paris-based International Aid Against Hunger: "There is a perverse game between the government and the rebels to make aid not work, unless, of course, they can turn it to their own advantage." But the stronger of the two parties, Mengistu's government, is the source of most of the trouble. Says an aid official in Washington: "I'll tell you what the government's three...
...relief never reached its destination. About 25 miles south of the Eritrean capital of Asmara, secessionist rebels of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front opened fire on the unarmed, unescorted convoy, killing one driver and wounding three others. After clearing the vehicles of passengers, the rebels blasted the trucks with grenades, setting them ablaze. Half the food was burned beyond salvage, and all the vehicles were destroyed. The rebels claimed that some trucks carried government bombs and ammunition. "Completely untrue," said Michael Priestly, coordinator of the U.N. relief effort. "The people who did this did not even look under...
Relying on the principle of national sovereignty, Nigeria argued that no relief could be provided to the secessionist territories without Nigerian consent. The rest of the world could only respond, in the words of one senior officer, "If children must die first, then that is too bad, just...