The World - News from Dec. 8, 1988

Sudanese rebels ambushed a convoy carrying food and medicine to famine victims in the south and one truck hit a land mine, killing seven people, a U.N. official said in Khartoum, the capital. The attack shattered a lull in Sudan’s long civil war after a peace agreement signed last month. It also dampened the optimism of relief officials over two emergency airlifts that began last weekend with long-awaited security guarantees from the warring sides. The relief officials have doubled their estimate of drought deaths in Sudan this year to half a million.