/ 19 October 2000

SUDAN BOMBS RELIEF CENTRES – REBELS

SUDANESE government planes have bombed two relief centres in the south of the country, killing ”several” people and injuring 32, the main rebel movement said. Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Army (SPLA) representative George Garang said the attacks violated a 10-day ceasefire agreed to allow the United Nations Childrens’ Fund to carry out an anti-polio immunisation drive. Sudan’s 17-year-old civil war broadly pits the Islamist government in Khartoum against rebels in the largely Christian or animist south. – Reuters