The World - News from Sept. 26, 1986
The Sudanese government rejected an agreement between rebels and international relief officials to permit food to be flown to starving people in southern Sudan because of what it said was a continuing rebel military threat. Sudan’s high commissioner for refugees, Kamil Shawki, said the Cabinet has rejected a plan for a U.N.-sponsored airlift to transport food and medicine to Wau, which is controlled by the government, and Yirol, which the rebels control.
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