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The World - News from Sept. 26, 1986

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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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