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Sudan: Food crisis warning in the south

JUBA: Southern Sudan could face a food crisis this year because of erratic rainfall in several states, insecurity disrupting farming patterns, and poor infrastructure affecting aid delivery, local specialists said.

13 Jul 2009

“We certainly are concerned that there may indeed be a food crisis in Southern Sudan this year,” David Gressly, regional coordinator for the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) in Southern Sudan, said on 8 July 2009.

“Insecurity may be one of the factors that inhibited some crop production,” he told a news conference in Khartoum. “The larger factor may simply be the weather this year. Anybody who has travelled to Southern Sudan this time of year in the past would have seen a great deal of rain. We are not seeing the kind of rain so far in Southern Sudan as is typical.”

Read the full article on IRIN.