{"id":189560,"date":"2012-01-31T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/wfp-warns-500-000-could-flee-blue-nile-and-south-kordofan-states\/"},"modified":"2012-01-31T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T23:01:00","slug":"wfp-warns-500-000-could-flee-blue-nile-and-south-kordofan-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/wfp-warns-500-000-could-flee-blue-nile-and-south-kordofan-states","title":{"rendered":"WFP warns 500,000 could flee Blue Nile and South Kordofan states"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned the conflict in Blue Nile and South Kordofan could force up to half a million people to flee to South Sudan in the next few months, if Khartoum continues to block access to aid organizations trying to operate in the states.<\/p>\n

Ramiro Lopes da Silva, Deputy Executive Director of the WFP said during the past week more than 1,000 people crossed the border to South Sudan.<\/p>\n

He said this was the same as the rate of people that crossed from Somalia into Kenya at the height of the famine in the Horn of Africa last year.<\/p>\n

‘I<\/span>n a couple of months we are in what is typically the hunger season, both in Sudan and South Sudan, and obviously the impact on those populations is potentially very serious.’<\/p>\n

The Deputy Director said the WFP calls for Khartoum to allow the arrival of more humanitarian aid to Blue Nile and South Kordofan.<\/p>\n

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The government continues to insist it is concerned about the possibility of assistance reaching rebel controlled areas. <\/p>\n

The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned the conflict in Blue Nile and South Kordofan could force up to half a million people to flee to South Sudan in the next few months, if Khartoum continues to block access to aid organizations trying to operate in the states.<\/p>\n

Ramiro Lopes da Silva, Deputy Executive Director of the WFP said during the past week more than 1,000 people crossed the border to South Sudan.<\/p>\n

He said this was the same as the rate of people that crossed from Somalia into Kenya at the height of the famine in the Horn of Africa last year.<\/p>\n

‘I<\/span>n a couple of months we are in what is typically the hunger season, both in Sudan and South Sudan, and obviously the impact on those populations is potentially very serious.’<\/p>\n

The Deputy Director said the WFP calls for Khartoum to allow the arrival of more humanitarian aid to Blue Nile and South Kordofan.<\/p>\n

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The government continues to insist it is concerned about the possibility of assistance reaching rebel controlled areas.<\/p>\n

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