SUDAN: AID AGENCY SAYS 120 PEOPLE ARE DYING DAILY IN AJIEP ONE OF THE WORST AREAS HIT BY FAMINE

Record ID: 437665

  • Title: SUDAN: AID AGENCY SAYS 120 PEOPLE ARE DYING DAILY IN AJIEP ONE OF THE WORST AREAS HIT BY FAMINE
  • Date: 30th July 1998
  • Summary: AJIEP, SOUTHERN SUDAN (JULY 29, 1998)(RTV) 1. SLV MALNOURISHED WOMEN AND CHILDREN WAITING FOR FOOD AT FEEDING CENTRE 0.05 2. SCU EMACIATED CHILDREN WITH REGISTRATION FORMS STANDING IN LINE (2 SHOTS) 0.18 3. SCU WOMAN HOLDING STARVING CHILD 0.23 4. SCU TILT UP STARVING PEOPLE IN LINE 0.31 5. SCU PEOPLE IN LINE / SCU REGISTRATION FORMS (6 SHOTS) 0.50 6. SCU GRAIN SACKS AT DISTRIBUTION CENTRE (2 SHOTS) 1.01 7. SCU HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WAITING FOR FOOD IN YARD (4 SHOTS) 1.16 8. SCU CHILD WITH FLIES ON FACE/ SCU CHILDREN SITTING ON GROUND (4 SHOTS) 1.27 9. SCU CHILDREN COLLECTING FALLEN GRAIN 1.36 10. SLV GROUP OF PEOPLE WAITING TO REGISTER, KEPT BACK BY MEN WEARING MILITARY HATS AND HOLDING STICKS 1.41 11. SCU CHILDREN 1.45 12. SU MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERS INFORMATION OFFICER MALINI MORZARIA SAYING DEATH RATE IS 120 PEOPLE DYING A DAY JUST HERE (ENGLISH) 2.02 13. SLV WOMAN WITH BAG OF GRAIN LEAVING DISTRIBUTION CENTRE 2.09 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th August 1998 13:00
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  • Location: AJIEP, SUDAN
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  • Country: AFRICA Sudan
  • Reuters ID: LVA9N5NCMKIS8GAPBFFG0EOOV8JN
  • Story Text: The southern Sudan town of Ajiep reeled under the impact of a hunger crisis on Tuesday, with hundreds of families camped out waiting for relief food.An aid agency said up to 120 people are dying daily in the area, one of the worst hit in the famine zone.

    Aid agencies said they were distributing food to up to 6,000 people in Ajiep and tens of thousands more could be moving towards the town which has become a magnet for starving Sudanese.

    The small town was bulging with people, mainly young children, many of them naked, waiting for relief food.

    Ajiep, on the Jur river, is around 40 km (25 miles) north of Wau, the government-held capital of south Sudan in the Bahr el Ghazal region.

    The famine has affected different areas of Bahr el Ghazal to different degrees, but Ajiep is thought to be one of the worst hit towns.

    According to a survey led by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) a week ago, over 70,000 people are currently living in an area of 5km around Ajiep, and up to 120 die daily.

    MSF Information Officer Malini Morzaria said the United Nations and other agencies were hoping that no outbreak of cholera or measles would occur to make the situation worse.

    Drought, and even more the instability created by war, have brought on the famine in southern Sudan, which has mainly affected the ethnic Dinka people.

    For 15 years the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) rebels have been fighting the forces of the Khartoum government.


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