Sudan’s Pro-Iraq Stand Cutting Food Aid, Carter Says
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ATLANTA — Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday that thousands of civilians in Sudan are in danger of starving because the United States and many Arab and Western nations have cut off food aid due to the pro-Iraqi stance of Sudan’s leader, Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir.
In a statement from his Atlanta center, Carter also charged that Bashir’s military government is hindering relief efforts for Sudanese civilians who he said face disaster of the magnitude of the 1984 famine in which an estimated 150,000 starved to death.
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