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Sudan warns of serious food gap in 2010

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October 21, 2009 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan may be facing a serious food gap starting later this year and intensifying in 2010, a senior official said.

Workers rest during a lunch break at the U.N. World Food Program warehouse in Mombasa, Kenya on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. The warehouse is used to store food aid to be distributed in Burundi, Kenya, Sudan, Somaliaand Uganda (AP)

The Sudanese agricultural minister Abdel-Haleem Ismail Al-Mutaa’fi made the remarks before lawmakers where some have complained that their constituencies are on the verge of a famine.

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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  • 22 October 2009 06:03, by tiomdit_maker

    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.

  • 22 October 2009 06:03, by oshay

    Thieving Dinka should be afraid. They’re the ones in control of the most famine ridden parts of Sudan.

    • 22 October 2009 06:26, by tiomdit_maker

      Mr.Oshay,
      I think you had a problem with Dinka.Wether Dinka control amore land in south, that doesn,t mean famine cannot get to your area too.So Mr. Dog Oshay please reason before you exhale such a poison talk.Fuck you man with your devile heart.God will make away where it seem no way to his people.Fuck you pro arab, I bet you better go to north and have you being fuck with five pound to buy yourself battle of water.

    • 22 October 2009 15:06, by Barna Bahou

      Oshay,

      Dinkas will not die from famine coz they have cows, they cultivate and they are surrounded by lakes, rivers and nile where they can get fish.
      Use your brain properly and worry about yourself if you do not have such things in your area otherwise you will perish.

    • 22 October 2009 15:36, by GEU MANYOK

      Hey my dear fellow southern Mr. Oshay,i wanna tell you that you are wrong to point out the name of Dinka that they are the one stealing everything in S.Sudan.
      Actually i won’t blame you a lot when it was time for war people did not complain that Dinka is doing anything bad.and now is time for eating then people start complaining,remember it is not yet independent(uhuru) in case the war broke out never should you run away because you eat what you made.

  • 22 October 2009 06:11, by Biliu

    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?

  • 22 October 2009 10:27, by Critic_Ngueny

    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

    • 22 October 2009 13:10, by Ajongtar

      To Critic_Ngueny or what ever you call your self,

      You idiot dinka------- who use to loot their own relative in your own environment because of food.
      The Equatorians will not suffer because they know what is called MULODO or Hoe including the season for cultivation.

      But the stupid dinka will wait for free food from the I N.G O s.
      WFP made it clear that there are 5.9 million of dinkas who are in need of food assistance but not the Innocent Equotoria who knows how to take care of them selves.

      Mr. Oshay totally Agree with your comment, it’s through that the
      Thieves Dinka should be afraid. They’re the ones in control of the most famine ridden parts of Sudan. And in particular South SUDAN

      Any way if you stop corrupting the Government of Sierra Alfa then you will survive from next year.

  • 22 October 2009 14:11, by Ahmed Binouf

    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.

    • 22 October 2009 14:59, by okucu pa lotinokwan

      The SPLM members have the right of coming out from the National Assembly,what NCP party do discuss in the assembly really? which have no benefit at all, why to discuss on the issue of hungry situation in 2010 in sudan, while leaving out some major topics to be discuss for eg referedum,s law,National security laws,Darfur peace, etc, etc.I want to remind the NCP party that the whole world are watching on them, what they are doing taward others in sudan.My father Omer Bashir make peace attractive in south sudan,peace in Darfur,implement the east sudan peace agreement.And very carefully from some of your seniors advicers, few to mentioned your vice president Tahar,Nafi Al Nafi Dr Rak Gai,etc,etc God bless you.

      • 22 October 2009 15:53, by GEU MANYOK

        Thanks Mr.Okucu,we need people like you who talk about the interest of Southerns and not people like Oshay who talk about food,our main focus now is referendum not even damn election of April 2010.

  • 23 October 2009 00:31, by rumbekcity@eastlink.ca

    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..

  • 23 October 2009 11:21, by M.Cool.J

    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.



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