Sudan warns of serious food gap in 2010
October 21, 2009 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan may be facing a serious food gap starting later this year and intensifying in 2010, a senior official said.
This week, Mansour Al-Agab, a Sudanese lawmaker burst in tears saying that Al-Dandar region in Southeast Sudan is confronted with a sharp food deficit and on the borderline of a famine.
Al-Agab urged the government to provide aid to Al-Dandar residents or declare emergency in the area. He warned that thousands of heads of livestock could perish due to lack of water.
Al-Mutaa’fi, according to the independent Al-Sahafa newspaper, assured the legislators that his ministry would dispatch teams to the states to evaluate the food production in relation to the population needs in the respective areas.
The Sudanese official did not say when the surveyors would be sent out but projected that they would complete their work by early January.
“After careful evaluation beyond December, if there a proven need we will move and starting import food” Al-Mutaa’fi said.
He downplayed the severity of any food gap this year but said that 2010 will be critical and called for devising a plan to avoid it.
The irrigation minister Kamal Hassan Ali, on the other hand, revealed that drought with low rainfall levels has negatively impacted agriculture and farming.
He cited technical problems and abuse of water resources as reasons behind drought in some agricultural projects.
However, the head of Farmers’ Union in Sudan Ghareeg Kambal dismissed a talk on a food gap suggesting it is exaggerated “despite problems in the states of White Nile, Sinnar and Darfur”.
Kambal said that those speaking of a food gap “have no experience in agriculture” noting that the season is not over yet.
The World Food Program (WFP) estimates that 5.9 million people in Sudan are in need of food assistance this year.
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tiomdit_maker
Sudan warns of serious food gap in 2010
Sudan in general is facing a serious famine comparing with other countries in africa.But the most critical thing may not be a voide right now is a corruption that being escalated in south suadn.Alot of self intrest politician will gain much money from innocent blood.All our politician the use a lot their stomach instead of their brain.Northern sudan will his people, but our politician will grasp enough and run to Uganda, Kenya to hide.I am really worried how would southern sudan innocent would manage such abad famine.I pray to God open a way for them.
oshay
Sudan warns of serious food gap in 2010
Thieving Dinka should be afraid. They’re the ones in control of the most famine ridden parts of Sudan.
Biliu
Sudan warns of serious food gap in 2010
Very unfortunate news, Sudan potentials are beyond estimations if exploited well, yet we mostly relay on others to feed our stomachs, isn’t that one of the reasons to stop war and employ all efforts to provide food instead of providing weapons to kill our people, when is this rich continent call Africa will wake up and stand for itself?
Critic_Ngueny
Sudan warns of serious food gap in 2010
Dear Oshay and Thieleng,
Bark as much as you need but last you will face the music.Dinka is not a donkey on which anybody is free to take a joy ride.
Bear in mind that if a child cries for razor blade then you have to give to it to him or her.Your being against Dinka will let you get into hot water.
We must be very careful to supply Useless Equatoria with Enough food because they eat too much than anybody in Sudan.
The second group is Nuer community,
Dinkas stay for more than three weeks without food and that is our culture.
Critic_Ngueny from Bor town
Ahmed Binouf
We All Deserve to Die of Hunger, We Really Do..
Since we gave the chance to a cheater to manage our resources, this is the expected consequences of our own judgment. Why we are writing about it, what is the reason to the publicity if we know the cause of the famine?
No one should urge me that this is because of natural disasters, or talk about rain, or any other reasons, because the main reason is a one single person has been working to turn Sudanese resources into his own pocket and leave nothing to other hungry poor people.
In history we all learned that when leaders purposely hunger their people, they should be hanged on a public area, and this is what that regime deserves.
Shame on us if we know the cause and we are not able to straight it out, shame on us if we continue to blame, condemned and look for ways to hide our own failures while other poor people are dying of “HUNGER”, really shame on us, this is the 21st century.
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Sudan warns of serious food gap in 2010
I’m so a shame of Southern Sudan, before SPLA/SPLM took control in 2005, south never produce enough food for it’s people..I mean like well organize farms..now five years since then, south does not have major farms that produce enough food for its people…All the money from oil now go to boardering countries and back to Khartoum. The government was suppose to creates farms since 2005 five and produce enough grains and so on. These goods should have then been sold to the public and government would have then by now collected enough money from people and do other things with it. I blame the government and states governments for not talking advantage of modern agriculture and now our people will once again ask UN for food. These Western countries that donates food to us are hard workers and so should we too..Please be a shame of yourself and produce enough food for our people.We live in the most greenest place on earth..the Sudd and now we are asking UN..this big shame on us southern Sudanese..
M.Cool.J
Sudan warns of serious food gap in 2010
Dear friends,what do you see now?Don’t you see death seems to come from all angles?Famine killing Sudaneses,merciless rebels here,diseases on this other side.Isn’t God tired of us my fellow Sudanese?
Okay,let us take it easy and put all the blame on our political heavy-weights who put all what we are given into their never-full pockets.